What tolerance threshold for "My Afghan family"?

• My Afghan Family

  tells the story of a young Czech student who follows her love of amphitheater to her country, Afghanistan.

• Director Michaela Pavlátová signs a superb animated film that questions the role of women and their influence in a country dominated by the Taliban.

What place for women in the Afghanistan of yesterday or today?

What recurring violence is inflicted on them behind the walls of their homes?

These are the questions posed by

, a remarkable Czech animated film by Michaela Pavlátová and presented last year in Annecy.

Remarkable film, because if the subject is not new, we have already seen it treated very well in

or

, the tone of the subject could not be more delicate and the treatment could not be more original.

Thanks to the rhythm and effects of an animation that the director of the multi-award-winning short films

(nominated for the Oscars in 1992) or

(brilliant Cristal at Annecy in 2012), masters at her fingertips.

Thanks to the story above all, signed by her compatriot Petra Procházkova, a war reporter whose reported story is largely inspired by her experience.

Back to Prague 2001. Herra is a young Czech student who hates the vulgarity of classmates her age.

She rather pinches Nazir, a handsome Afghan, whom she decides to follow in his country when he decides to return home.

There, in Kabul, she will try to pose and impose her gaze as a European woman, against a backdrop of cultural and generational differences.

Not easy...

Little joys and big sorrows

"For me, Petra Procházková's novel is an extraordinary and deeply human work," says Michaela Pavlátová in the press kit.

Drawing inspiration from her own journey, she was able to transpose, with a gaze imbued with incredible empathy, the efforts of Afghan women to live free in post-Taliban Afghanistan, assume true and great love, know small joys and great sorrows that deserve our attention.

We can condemn a society, whose religion and politics differ from ours, and whose behavior of individuals and groups deviates from our model, but when we are interested in the soul of human beings, to their family relationships and their daily lives, we understand their differences better.

This is why the protagonist, strong and ambiguous, interests me enormously.

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We do too, and that's why we follow with as much curiosity as fear this young woman who will find herself confronted with her family, her neighbors and all those who were not expecting her in the land of the Taliban.

However,

is a universal love story, full of happy and unhappy events, in any case unexpected and all the more dramatic as one lives in a country at war.

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