August 8, 2008

2:30 pm

View from a Grain of Sand
preceded by Kabul Girls Club
August 8 at 2:30
East Building Concourse, Large Auditorium
free
details here: http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/afghanistan_film.shtm

Meena Nanji’s documentary study of three Afghan women barely coping with their personal predicaments challenges the more upbeat media accounts of recent improvements for females within the country. (Meena Nanji, 2006, digital beta, Dari with subtitles, 82 minutes)
In Kabul Girls Club, Afghan-American soccer coaches arrive in Afghanistan to organize and nurture a soccer clinic for the young women of Kabul. (Johnson McKelvy, 2007, digital beta, 25 minutes)

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