13-19 January
2025
Poignant and touching slices of Leila’s life, a charming 64-year-old afghan transgender who is constantly navigating and negotiating her place in an antagonistic world, just before the Taliban retakes its vigorous control of Afghanistan.
Fariba Haidari was born in Afghanistan and moved to Iran as a child. She is a nurse and a filmmaker. She made films in Afghanistan, and got threats from an extremist group because of a fiction film that she made which was about remarkable women in Afghanistan’s history. She moved to Sweden in 2012 and has made two documentaries and one fiction film.
| Part of: | FFN - Shorts 2 |
| Director: | Fariba Haidari |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Run time: | 25m |
| Dialogue: | Dari |
| Producer: | Antonio Russo Merenda |