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Motherland Afghanistan

    February 14, 2007 (US)

    1h 14m

    Nearly one in seven Afghan women die in childbirth.

    Afghani-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi shadows her father, a women's health specialist working to rebuild hospitals in war-torn Afghanistan, in this thought-provoking documentary filmed in the wake of the United States' invasion of the region. In a country where one in seven ...

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