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International Women’s Day Film Screening: Enemies of Happiness
Celebrate With Your Mothers Daughters Sisters Friends
Thursday, March 6
6:30 Reception | 7:00 Film Screening
at MCLE, 10 Winter Place, Boston
(1 Block from Park Street T and Downtown Crossing)
Followed by Q&A with
Malalai Joya
Courageous young Afghan woman who has served in Afghanistan's
Loya jirga,
the Afghan Parliament, and is the subject of the film.
Afghan and Middle Eastern food by
The Helmand Restaurant, The Red Fez and Cafe Barada
Co-Sponsored by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education
$15 Suggested Donation
Advanced Registration is Now Closed
Tickets Will Be Available At the Door.
About Enemies of Happiness (59 min.)
In September 2005, Afghanistan held its first parliamentary elections in 35 years. Among the candidates for 249 assembly seats was Malalai Joya, a courageous, controversial 27-year-old woman who had ignited outrage among hard-liners when she spoke out against corrupt warlords at the Grand Council of tribal elders in 2003. ENEMIES OF HAPPINESS is a revelatory portrait of this extraordinary freedom fighter and the way she won the hearts of voters, as well as a snapshot of life and politics in war-torn Afghanistan.
Enemies of Happiness has won numerous awards, including the Sundance World Cinema Prize for documentaries.
More International Women's Day Films from
Hostelling International
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United Nations Association of Greater Boston