Thu Dec 14 2023

The Takeover

Anders Hammer

(33 min.)

Filmed over a year as the Taliban retakes control of Afghanistan, The Takeover documents the country’s rapid transformation and the women who refuse to lose their rights.

Starting as the US leaves Afghanistan, this film shows the women's experience, protests, and daily life in the cities and countryside. We see how restrictions on women’s basic freedoms are enforced by the Taliban on all levels of society.

Academy Award-nominated director Anders Hammer returns to his former home of Afghanistan, a country he has spent a large part of the last 15 years working in, to capture the development.


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