Motherland Afghanistan

Motherland Afghanistan

Nearly one in seven Afghan women die in childbirth.

2007 en 74 minutes

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Plot

Afghani-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi shadows her father, a women's health specialist working to rebuild hospitals in war-torn Afghanistan, in this thought-provoking documentary filmed in the wake of the United States' invasion of the region. In a country where one in seven women dies during childbirth, many women are willing to travel for days to receive adequate care from a trained professional.

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Cast

Terrence Howard

Terrence Howard

Narrator

Nafisa Mojadidi

Nafisa Mojadidi

Herself

Qudrat Mojadidi

Qudrat Mojadidi

Himself

Sedika Mojadidi

Sedika Mojadidi

Herself

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