The Critical Room - The Taliban's fight against women's rights

The Oscar-nominated journalist and director Anders Hammer is back with another hard-hitting short documentary, THE TAKEOVER (2023).
This time, we get an inside look at the dramatic takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the subsequent controversial visit to Norway. After the screening, there will be a panel discussion about Afghanistan and the Taliban's rule of the country.

The panel:

• Anders Hammer is a director and journalist. He has made several films from Afghanistan and was nominated for an Oscar for his last film, Do Not Split (2019).

• Mina Rafiq is an activist and head of A.I.P (Against Illiteracy and Poverty) in Oslo, which works to combat illiteracy and poverty among Afghan women.

• Moderator - Elisabeth Eide is Professor Emeritus at OsloMet - Metropolitan University. Her research has included gender and marginalization, and she has written several books on international relations.

Practical information

• The film is screened at Vega in Sal 1, November 19. , at 4 PM

About the film

At the very bottom of the international democracy index is Afghanistan. A country where women are not allowed to get an education and the roots of society have been torn up for decades. The images of the Taliban's dramatic takeover in 2021 have stuck with many, and in The Takeover, which recently won the Jury Prize at the renowned Sheffield Doc/Fest, we get up close to desperate activists, convinced extremists, and ordinary people. Director Anders Hammer has previously shown that he is able to get closer to historical events than most directors, and the film has become an intimate, shocking, and at times both absurd and surreal portrait of these dramatic events.

The Critical Room

The screening is part of the section The Critical Room (DKR) which is Films from the South's forum for debate and conversation.