'I want to show to the world that it was a normal day, everything was normal. And then it all collapsed,' Karimi told THR.
Flight from Kabul
, the film will trace the 40 hours from the moment on Aug. 15 when the Taliban invaded the Afghan capital to when Karimi finally managed to flee with her family, traveling first to Istanbul and finally to Kyiv in Ukraine. “I want to show to the world that it was a normal day, everything was normal. And then it all collapsed,” she said, speaking exclusively to. “In the news, people only saw the bigger story of the crowd. But there were many individual stories in those 40 hours, stories I saw myself, that I experienced.”
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