Girl Without a Hijab

News / TV Report / 2019 |

Movie Info

Release Date: 19 Sep, 2019
Author Elene Tsintsadze
Co-author Kakha Roinishvili
Director Irakli Chikhladze
Producer Nino Japaridze
Broadcaster Imedi TV
Country Georgia

Synopsis

Competition status – Nominee

Thirty-one-year-old Maryam Sharif used to be a #whitewednesdays activist in Iran. Following an altercation with police in which a policeman struck Maryam for not wearing a headscarf, she shared the evidence on Instagram and then had to leave her home country not to get arrested. Now she asked for asylum in Georgia and is speaking up about women’s rights, including those of Georgian women.