Motley's LawNicole Nielsen Horanyi

Who would be the least obvious person to be the only foreign lawyer to have a practice in Afghanistan? Undoubtedly it would be an assertive, unveiled African-American woman. And that's exactly what Kimberly Motley is. A surprising story that casts an unprecedented look at life in Kabul.

Attorney Kimberly Motley - a former Miss Wisconsin who had never been outside the US before - headed to Kabul for the first time in 2008. In 2004, when Afghanistan got its first democratic constitution, a formal legal system was implemented, combined with the informal Sharia law. Motley is honest about its original purpose: she went there to make money. After all, she herself grew up in poverty and she is determined to secure the financial future of her children.

But soon something changed: the lack of human rights and widespread corruption sparked a passion in her she will not give up quickly. She defends various parties: a British soldier who has been incarcerated for fraud without trial for two years and counting, as well as an Afghan girl who threatens to be punished for leaving her husband. She continues to fight despite threats and attacks and the fact that she misses her family, who have stayed behind in the US. "Motley's Law" already won prizes at prestigious festivals like IDFA and DOC NYC.



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Vertoond op editie(s) 2016
Screened at edition(s) 2016

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Directed by Nicole Nielsen Horanyi
Denmark
85 min.
English, Pushto
Subtitles: English

Programme

ConScience

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Director

Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

Producer

Helle Faber

Production company

Made in Copenhagen

Cinematography

Henrik Ipsen

Editing

Steen Johannessen, Nicolaj Monberg

Music

Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen

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