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SONITA

By Rokhsareh GHAEM MAGHAMI

Documentary - Completed 2015

An Afghan refugee in Iran who works as a cleaner at the refugee center that doubles as a school, imagines herself a rapper — the spiritual daughter of Michael Jackson and Rihanna. So when her mother summons her home to sell her as a bride, Sonita looks for any way out of a future she dreads.

Festivals
& Awards

IDFA 2015

Audience Award

IDFA 2015

Doc U Award

Sundance Film Festival 2016

World Documentaries World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, IRAN
- Languages
- FARSI, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 91 mn
- Director(s)
- Rokhsareh GHAEM MAGHAMI
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-0EBD-0000-H-0000-0000-N
- EIDR
- 10.5240/AD0A-EF42-78CA-D042-BE2E-0
- Producer(s)
- Gerd HAAG
- Synopsis
- If 18-year old Sonita had a say in things, Michael Jackson would be her father and Rihanna her mother. She captures her dream of being a famous rapper in
  her scrapbook. For the time being, her only fans are the other teenage girls in a Tehran shelter. There, Sonita, a refugee from Afghanistan, gets counseling for the traumas she has suffered and guidance in shaping her future. Her family has a very different future planned for her: as a bride she’s worth $9,000. What’s more, women aren’t allowed to sing in Iran. How can Sonita still succeed in making her dreams come true?

SONITA

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