You Will Be Free

You Will Be Free — Plot

Afghanistan, Spring 2002 — Following the fall of the taliban regime, the country faces extreme poverty. To feed his family, a father is forced to sell his 15-year-old daughter to a 65-year-old man. Refusing to accept this fate for her child, the mother, determined to give her a brighter future, arranges a marriage with a man living in Montreal. In return, she makes a solemn promise: the children born of this union will one day marry their cousins remaining in Afghanistan. Montreal, Spring 2020 — The pact resurfaces. Now well integrated into Quebec society, Zarmina refuses to let her 15-year-old daughter marry her cousin in Afghanistan. Her firm opposition triggers a tragic chain of events.

• Release date
• March 27, 2026
• Runtime
• 89 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Bachir Bensaddek

You Will Be Free — Cast

Wazhma Bahar Zarmina Latif Julie Le Breton Nancy Fortin Firuz Ali Nazar Wahid Latif Saba Vahedyousefi Marwa Latif Saboor Sahak Hakim Latif Paeman Arianfar Adbullah Latif

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Arezoo Ariapoor Salima Latif Sophie Cadieux Directrice d'école