Apple Original Films has just dropped the trailer for Bread & Roses, a documentary feature — directed by Sahra Mani and produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Malala Yousafzai — about the plight of women in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the 2021 withdrawal from the country of the United States and fall of Kabul to the Taliban.
The film, which Lawrence and her Excellent Cadaver producing partner Justine Ciarrocchi initiated and hired Afghan filmmaker Mani (A Thousand Girls Like Me) to direct, follows three courageous Afghani women as they resist efforts to rob them of the autonomy they had acquired in recent decades.
Yousafzai, the Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize-winning champion of girls education, signed on as an executive producer to further highlight the film’s urgent message, joined by the Iranian composer Farhad Khosravi.
Bread & Roses had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it garnered strong reviews (it is currently at 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes), and will be released in select cities — including New York and Los Angeles — and begin streaming on Apple TV+ on Nov. 22.
Lawrence and Ciarrocchi are also executive producers of another 2024 documentary feature about women’s rights: Zurawski v. Texas, which was directed by Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, and also counts Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton as executive producers. The film, which chronicles the devastating effects that the overturning of Roe v. Wade has already had on numerous women, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and will open in select theaters prior to the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election.
