Motherland Afghanistan

Feb 14, 2007

1h 14m

★ 0.0

Nearly one in seven Afghan women die in childbirth.

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Aubin Pictures

ITVS

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Cast

Narrator

Terrence Howard

Herself

Nafisa Mojadidi

Himself

Qudrat Mojadidi

Herself

Sedika Mojadidi

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Motherland Afghanistan

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