Playing the Taar

Roya Sadat

Ay Nabaat is a 17 year-old girl from the Turkmen ethnic minority in Afghanistan. She has been weaving carpets at home since her childhood. Her entire life is interlocked to carpet strings and colors. For many years, her father has been engaging himself in bloody and hostile exchanges with another neighboring ethnic group. In order to put an end to this hostility, he decides to have Ay Nabaat marry a man from the opposing group who already has three wives. After getting married, Ay Nabaat gets pregnant. To take revenge on Ay Nabaat’s father, her newly-proclaimed husband claims that her child is illegitimate. Thus, Ay Nabaat’s father has his daughter move out of her husband’s house. She is forced to give birth to her child in an abandoned and devastated shelter.
Country: Afghanistan
Time: 36
Year: 2008
Language: Dari
Subtitles: English