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Sonita(Movie, 2016)

1h 31min | Genres: Documentary, Music
SonitaRating: 3.4/5 (with 1010 votes)
Sonita is a 2015 documentary film about Sonita Alizadeh, a 15-year-old Afghan rapper and refugee living in Tehran. The film was directed by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami and premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the festival's World Documentary Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. Sonita follows Alizadeh, who fled the Taliban in Herat, Afghanistan as a child and is an undocumented refugee, over a three-year period. During the making of the documentary, Alizadeh's relatives attempt to sell her into marriage. Ghaemmaghami intervened by paying them $2,000 to delay the marriage, and later helping Alizadeh to secure a scholarship in the United States. Ghaemmaghami 's interference in her documentary subject's life was controversial. ()
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Awards & Nominations for Sonita

Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Sundance World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary

About Sonita

If 18-year-old Sonita had a say, Michael Jackson and Rihanna would be her parents and she'd be a rapper who tells the story of Afghan women and their fate as child brides. She finds out that her family plans to sell her to an unknown husband for $9,000.

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Trailer for Sonita + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Sonita - UK Trailer(Trailer, 1:53)

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Additional Information

Production countries: Switzerland, Germany
Original language: Persian (FA)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Persian (FA)
Translated into 8 languages: Catalan (CA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 11/20/2015
Cast: Sonita Alizadeh
Director: Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami
Film Editor: Rune Schweitzer
Director of Photography: Behrouz Badrouj, Ali Mohammad Ghasemi, Mohammad Haddadi, Arastoo Givi, Torben Bernard, Parviz Arefi, Ala Mohseni
Composer: Moritz Denis
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Sonita ou la valeur d'une vie"
"Σονίτα"
"ソニータ"
"سونیتا"

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