Director: Helga Reidemeister
Screenplay: Helga Reidemeister
Producers: Helga Reidemeister, Zoran Solomun

Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood, but they were separated by war. They meet again in Kabul in the late 1990s. Poverty forces Hossein to fight in the war and a shell splinter leaves him paralyzed. At the same time, Shaima is sold in marriage to a man 40 years her senior as his fourth wife… Whatever happens doesn’t prevent the two lovers from seeing each other as much as possible. This documentary is an amazing story about tribal laws, disgrace, fear and hope for change in a war-ravaged country.

Festivals & Awards

2009 Berlin Film Festival

Helga Reidemeister

Born in 1940, in Germany, Helga Reidemeister studied painting in Berlin. After that, she studied at German Film and Television Academy Berlin. Since 1988 she gives lectures in Germany and abroad. She has directed many documentaries since 1970s and received many festival awards.

Selected Filmography

2009 War and Love in Kabul
2004 Texas-Kabul
2001 Gotteszell-A Women’s Prison
1992 Rodina Means Home
1987 Shooting in Berlin
1983 Eyes Fixed on the Money
1982 Karola Bloch
1979 Who Says It’s Fate