Writing Hawa

Hawa is in her fifties when she decides to start a textiles business and finally learn to read and write. After being married at the age of 13 to her much older husband, she is beginning to claim her independence when the US announces that they have made a deal with the Taliban and will be withdrawing from Afghanistan. At the same time Hawa opens her home in Kabul to her teenage granddaughter after she runs away from her abusive father. Hawa’s daughter, filmmaker Najiba Noori, bears witness to his tumultuous turning point with a patient and intimate observation lens until she herself is forced to make an impossible choice. Filmed over five years, Writing Hawa follows three generations of women as they fight for their dreams against the patriarchal forces of geopolitics. (CT)