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Laila at the Bridge. A feature documentary about Laila Haidari. Laila survived child marriage and her own traumatic past to battle one of the deadliest problems in Afghanistan: heroin addiction.
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Laila Haidari survived child marriage and her own traumatic...
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F:ACT Award - CPH:DOX 2018, Nominee for Tim Hetherington Award - Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018, Top Twenty Audience Favorite - Hot Docs 2018, Locarno Film Festival 2018, DOC NYC 2018, New Orleans Film Festival 2018, RIDM 2018, This Human World 2018, Films From The South 2018, Winner - Bergen International Film Festival 2018, Watch Docs Human Rights Film Festival 2018, Istanbul International Bosphorus Film Festival 2018, Klaipeda Human Rights Film Festival Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films 2018, BelDocs ...
Oct 21, 2018 · Laila at the Bridge: Directed by Elizabeth Mirzaei, Gulistan Mirzaei. Laila Haidari survived child marriage and her own traumatic past to battle one of the deadliest problems in Afghanistan: heroin addiction.
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- Elizabeth Mirzaei, Gulistan Mirzaei
- 2018-10-21
Synopsis. In a country offering almost no treatment services despite a crisis of addiction, Laila Haidari took the highly unusual decision to found her own pioneering addiction treatment center and a restaurant where all of the waiters are recovering heroin addicts. A deeply personal perspective on the global addiction epidemic, the film ...
- Elizabeth Mirzaei, Gulistan Mirzaei
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In a country offering almost no treatment services despite a crisis of addiction, Laila Haidari took the highly unusual decision to found her own pioneering addiction treatment center and a restaurant where all of the waiters are recovering heroin addicts. A deeply personal perspective on the global addiction epidemic, the film follows the labor of love of one woman fighting to keep her center alive in the face of physical threats, governmental opposition and the departure of the ...
- Elizabeth Mirzaei, Gulistan Mirzaei
- Intuitive Pictures, Mirzaei Films
Having witnessed her brother’s 25-year battle with drug addiction, former child bride Laila devotes her life to treating heroin-addicted men and women in Kabul. As foreign troops withdraw from Afghanistan and international aid dries up, Laila struggles to prevail over a crisis of addiction and a corrupt government in a country on the verge of collapse.
Laila Haidari survived child marriage and her own traumatic past to battle one of the deadliest problems in Afghanistan: heroin addiction. As the “mother of the addicts,” she must prevail over a crisis of addiction and a corrupt government in a country on the verge of collapse.
