Sonita (film)
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- Sonita Alizadeh
- Latifah Alizadeh
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| Directed by | Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami |
| Written by | Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami |
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| Edited by | Rune Schweitzer |
| Music by | Moritz Denis |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
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Sonita (Dari: سونیتا) is a 2015 documentary film about Sonita Alizadeh, a 15-year-old Afghan rapper and refugee living in Tehran. The film was directed by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami and premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the festival's World Documentary Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award.[1][2][3]
Sonita follows Alizadeh, who fled the Taliban in Herat, Afghanistan as a child and is an undocumented refugee, over a three-year period. During the making of the documentary, Alizadeh's relatives attempt to sell her into marriage. Ghaemmaghami intervened by paying them $2,000 to delay the marriage, and later helping Alizadeh to secure a scholarship in the United States.[4] Ghaemmaghami 's interference in her documentary subject's life was controversial.[5]
Ghaemmaghami met Sonita Alizadeh through a cousin, who introduced the two to each other in the hope that Ghaemmaghami would be able to help Alizadeh meet other musicians. [6]