“Love Crimes of Kabul” follows three young prisoners as they go to trial, revealing the pressures and paradoxes that women in Afghanistan face today. This riveting documentary straightforwardly captures the Afghan theocracy’s soulless treatment of women. It reveals how religion-based laws have corrupted those relationships into exploitative prostitution, and turned judges, clerics, parents and relatives into pimps.
KABUL JUNE 17: Jailed for running away from home to escape abuse, for allegations of adultery, premarital sex and other “moral crimes,” the women of Afghanistan’s Badum Bagh prison band together to fight for their freedom.
Produced and directed by Tanaz Eshaghian, “Love Crimes of Kabul” follows three young prisoners as they go to trial, revealing the pressures and paradoxes that women in Afghanistan face today, and the dangerous consequences of refusing to fit into society’s norms.
Tanaz Eshaghian is an Iranian-born American documentary filmmaker. She resides in New York City. Tanaz left Iran with her mother at the age of 6, during the period after the Iranian Revolution. She is both Iranian and Jewish.
This riveting documentary straightforwardly captures the Afghan theocracy’s soulless treatment of women (and men) who show human affection and express the love in their hearts. Moreover, it reveals how religion-based laws have corrupted those relationships into exploitative prostitution, and turned judges, clerics, parents and relatives into pimps.
A very bleak subject presented with a delicate soundtrack make for a very sad film.
