INSIDE KABUL is a short animated film project that follows the parallel destinies of two young Afghan women, Raha and Marwa, since Kabul was taken by the Taliban. We acompanie each of them in the first year under Taliban rule with Raha staying home in Kabul and Marwa fleeing and ultimately finding herself in a refugee camp in Abu Dhabi. While tracking both young women we see them face the difficulties and challenges of being in their 20’s. For Raha and Marwa, whose world was abruptly turned upside down in the summer of 2021, coming of age stories, questions of independence, liberty, womanhood, whilst normal for young women of their age, take on a particular poignancy.
INSIDE KABUL by Caroline Gillet
Produced by Estelle Fialon, Les Films du Poisson & Matthieu Liégeois, Aluma Production
Animation Director Kubra Khademi
Art Director Luciano Lepinay
Directed by Caroline Gillet
Denis Walgenwitz
Studio Tchack
Genre Animation, Documentary
Length 26’
Co-produced by Ström Pictures and BBC Storyville
World Sales Cinephil