Hava, Maryam, Ayesha, which had its international premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 2019, was championed by Hollywood star Angelina Jolie. It is the first fiction feature of Slovakia-trained Afghan documentary filmmaker Sahraa Karimi.
The film focuses on the internal conflicts of three Afghan women from the war-torn regions of Afghanistan. It will be screened for the first time at the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK 2022), on March 22 (Tuesday) at New-1 theatre, at 7 p.m.
It has won the Jury Prize for Best Feature Film at the Tasveer South Asian Film Festival and was nominated for the Venice Horizons Award at the Venice film fest, for its sensitive portrayal of the lives and pain of three pregnant Afghan women suffering the same conflict zones of war and gender constraints, though they come from different backgrounds.
Sahraa Karimi, who concentrates on securing women’s rights and their space in media as her life’s mission, has fashioned a debut feature that has stirred many controversies for its political and gender-sensitive narrative.