KAMAY

By Ilyas YOURISH, Shahrokh BIKARAN

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Documentary - Completed 2024

A Hazara family from Afghanistan seeks justice after the death of their daughter at Kabul University.

Festivals
& Awards

BFI London FF 2024
Official Competition - Documentary
Visions du Réel 2024
Intereligious Award
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • BELGIUM, FRANCE, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • HAZARAGI
    • Duration
    • 105 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ilyas YOURISH, Shahrokh BIKARAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Ilyas YOURISH (KAMAY FILM), Hanne PHLYPO (CLIN D'OEIL FILMS), Serge GORDEY (TEMPS NOIR)
    • Synopsis
    • Freshta and her family are Hazaras, a people from central Afghanistan that have suffered centuries of state persecution and genocide. Freshta’s elder sister, Zahra, committed suicide a few weeks before her graduation from Kabul University, after her thesis research on the local plant ‘Kamay’ was rejected several times by her professor. Guided by the words and questions the grieving Freshta asks herself about her sister, we follow the family’s struggle for justice.