Tamana Ayazi and Marcel Mettelsiefen's new documentary, In Her Hands, scrambles as it chases a moving target.When the film begins in January 2020, their subject, the 26-year-old Zarifa Ghafari, is one of Afghanistan's first female mayors, and a beleaguered but determined champion of women's rights.By the time the movie wraps up in early 2022, Ghafari has survived a murder attempt, lost her father to an assassination and sought asylum in Germany after the Taliban's 2021 recapture of Kabul.
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