The Secret Reading Club of Kabul

A powerful documentary about a reading circle for women in a society that has taken everything from them.

The Taliban’s return five years ago stripped women in Afghanistan of every last one of their rights. In a society where half the population has lost the right to work, education and freedom of expression, a group of young girls forms a reading circle inspired by Anne Frank’s fate. Director Shakiba Adil weaves her own experience as a refugee from the country together with the stories of the women in the reading circle, who manage to preserve their dignity and hope in a society that has taken everything from them.