Kandahar

Kandahar

200185 min6.3 / 10

A harrowing, intimate portrait of a woman's desperate journey through Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to save her sister, grounded in real suffering and moral urgency.

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.

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