Laila at the Bridge

Laila at the Bridge

Laila at the Bridge

2018, Canada, Afghanistan, 96', Elizabeth and Gulistan Mirzaei​​​

Synopsis
In a country offering almost no treatment services despite a crisis of addiction, Laila Haidari took the highly unusual decision to found her own pioneering addiction treatment center and a restaurant where all of the waiters are recovering heroin addicts.  
A deeply personal perspective on the global addiction epidemic, the film follows the labor of love of one woman fighting to keep her center alive in the face of physical threats, governmental opposition and the departure of the international community from Afghanistan. 
 
 

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F:ACT Award - CPH:DOX 2018, Nominee for Tim Hetherington Award - Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018, Top Twenty Audience Favorite - Hot Docs 2018, Locarno Film Festival 2018, DOC NYC 2018, New Orleans Film Festival 2018, RIDM 2018, This Human World 2018, Films From The South 2018, Winner - Bergen International Film Festival 2018, Watch Docs Human Rights Film Festival 2018, Istanbul International Bosphorus Film Festival 2018, Klaipeda Human Rights Film Festival Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films 2018, BelDocs 2018, DokuFest 2018, Winner - Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2019, Cleveland International Film Festival 2019, DocLands Documentary Film Festival 2019, RiverRun International Film Festival 2019, Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival 2019, Globale Mittelhessen DOC Film Festival 2019, Polyloid Film Festival 2019, International Film Festival Innsbruck 2019, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019, Eindhoven DOCfeed 2019, Voices of the investigative journalism (Portedone) 2019, Sole Luna Human Rights Film Festival 2019, One World Prague International Human Rights Film Festival 2019, Watch Docs Human Rights Film Festival BELARUS 2019.
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