“You only oppress women,” the young woman says to the Taliban fighter.
“I told you not to talk,” he shouts back, “I will kill you right here!”
“Okay, kill me!” she replies, raising her voice to match his. “You closed schools and universities! It’s better to kill me!”
A camera phone has secretly, and shakily, captured this direct confrontation inside a car between the woman and the militant.
She had just been arrested following a protest and was about to be taken to a holding cell in Kabul.
It is a scene from the documentary Bread and Roses, which explores the day-to-day lives of three women in the weeks following the takeover.
The producer is the Oscar-winning actress, Jennifer Lawrence, who is telling the BBC why this moment in the film is so significant to her.
“My heart was beating so fast watching these women defy the Taliban,” Lawrence says. “You don’t see this side of the story, women fighting back, in the news every day and it’s an important part of our film, and the…
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