women excluded from society

“I have never worn a burka in the past. But I have to do it for my safety. When I wear this, I feel like a prisoner.”, says Zubaida Sahar, an icon of Afghan cinema. She is hiding because all Afghans know her face and because she is afraid. Since the arrival of the Taliban, she has gone out as little as possible so as not to face the Islamists who took power more than three months ago. She has acted in films produced by Americans, French and Germans, regularly playing mother roles. We call it the “Afghan cinema mum”.

“I was the super-mom of the cinema, in theaters they applauded me. I received a lot of prizes and now, what have I become? Abandoned at home. I sold what I could to feed my children. children “, she explains. No more films are made, the Taliban hating series and actresses exposed to the eyes of men. Wanted, Zubaida Sahar says she will be killed if found: “I have acted in very anti-Taliban films”. Like her, artists, magistrate singers, police officers and soldiers live in Kabul in terror.