Osama (2004)
Directed by Siddiq Barmak
After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
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What critics compared Osama to
For a more traumatic but arguably more portrait of the trouble women face under misogynist regimes, Siddiq Barmak’s harrowing Osama (2003) more realistically touches upon the consequences of such survivalist tactics by women who defy the patriarchal powers of the land.