The Takeover

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 (Oscar-nominated for Do Not Split in 2021) 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.

Jon Sæter

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

Ahead of the screening of THE TAKEOVER on Sunday NOV 19 at 16.00 in Vega 1, there will be a conversation about the Taliban's fight against women's rights.

The conversation will be in Norwegian.

Director

Anders Hammer (b. 1977) is a Norwegian journalist and documentarist. He has previously made a documentary series about the terrorist Philip Manshaus. He gained international recognition for the Oscar-nominated Do Not Split (2020), which focused on the protest movement in Hong Kong in 2019.

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