Land Without Women –
How the Taliban Are Erasing Afghan Women from Public Life
Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban have imposed a relentless series of decrees aimed at erasing women from Afghan society. Education, employment, personal freedom—one by one, these fundamental rights are being stripped away. Women are expected to vanish from public view.
Yet across the country, many refuse to be silenced. With quiet courage and steadfast resolve, they continue to resist.
Land Without Women is a powerful portrait of resilience. Through the lens of “NZZ Format,” director Vanessa Schlesier captures the quiet heroism of Afghan women who refuse to disappear.
A film by Vanessa Schlesier
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Mission Kabul-Luftbrücke
Kabul-Luftbrücke started as a group of volunteers from Berlin that evacuated than 2700 people from Afghanistan in the year between August 21 to 22. The evacuees have worked as local forces, media workers or human rights activists.
The series documents how these evacuations took places. It follows four families all the way from Afghanistan to Germany.
ARD-Miniseries
A film by Vanessa Schlesier, Ronald Rist and Antje Boehmert
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They cannot return because they have violated the customs of the Islamic regime. For years, they haven't seen their families. But now the Iranian diaspora in Europe has hope.People are protesting for freedom in their homeland. A boxer and an activist fight for revolution in exile. And dream of what a new Iran could look like.
Film by Vanessa Schlesier
