Written and Directed by
Brishkay Ahmed

Producer
Teri Snelgrove

Line Producer
Jennifer Roworth

Director of Photography
Diana Parry

Editor
Jessica Dymond

Composer
Zhovan Zoleikhapour

Featuring
Nelofer Pazira
Vida Samadzai
Sahar Parniyan
Mozhdah Jamalzadah
Shogofa Sediqi

Production Designer
Roxana Chapela

Projection Designer
Bobbi Kozinuk

Sound Recordist
Lisa Kolisnyk

1st Assistant Camera
Luke Strahm
Lauren Yim

2nd Assistant Camera
Adeliya Filipchyk

B-Camera Operator
Karina Jesson
Valeriya Khan

1st Assistant B-Camera
Valeriya Khan
Jamison Mitri

Set Decorator
Roisin Horan
Rebecca Sjonger

Art Assistant
Han Pham
Letitia Tiranayake

Projection Assistant
Nova Weipert

Hair and Makeup Artist
Courtney Yellow-Quill
Lampo Zeng

Construction Coordinator
Caleb Friesen

Carpenters
Harrison Oswald
Dylan Gallant
Hayley Wilson

Stills Photographer
Angel Lynne

Gaffer
Bianca Gueco

Key Grip
Cholo Medina

Dolly Grip
Sahar Khalaji

Best Person
Lisa Ouabbache
Jesse Jade Evans
Natalia Bahamon
Dylan Holm

Grip
Oliver McCrea
Jeff Wood
Jackson Breitkreuz
Julien Gorguet
Fraser Lamb
Tyler Parsons
Ethan Sands

Lamp Operator
Krystal Chan
Alexa Ishikawa
Ryan Ding
Dylan Holm
Dakota Arsenault
Kyungwon Schin

Background Performers
Sara Abdu Wadood
Henna Mann
Nielaab Hedayat
Meghan McAdam

Senior Production Coordinator
Maddy Chang
Lee Clapp

Production Coordinator
Calvin Serutoke

Production Assistant
Henna Mann
Amina Luthi
Jessie Bartsch
Shane Kennedy

Researcher
Katherine Milazzo

Assistant Editor
Nick Ogden
Bec Cranswick

Title Designer
Sterling Larose

Visual Effects Artist
Bun Lee

Technical Coordinator
Wes Machnikowski
Lyne Lapointe

Sound Design
Doug Paterson: Sound Supervisor, Sound Designer
Chris Hind: Additional Sound Design
Yegor Irodov: Dialogue Editor, Foley Editor

Re-Recording Mixer
May Guimarães

Mix Facility
Maverick Post Group Inc.

Colourist
Lorne Wright

Online Facility
Picture Shop

Special Thanks
Chris Sheldon
Tug Phipps
Argent Grip & Lighting
VIVO Media Arts Centre
Carla Ritchie
Nazanin Oghanian
Genki Ferguson
Abundance Community Farm
Amir Niroumand
Tracey Friesen
Johanne Ascoli
Arts Umbrella
Alina Blackett
Alan Brodie
Elizabeth Campbell
Fazel Ahmed Afghan
Aoife King
Siobhan Grennan
Roberta Staley
Andrea Damiani
Howard J Davis
Sara Harowitz
Nikki Gill
Caitlin Veitch
Kim Temple
Jess Knights
Lynn Armitage
Benjamin Shepard
Mark Savage Photography
Javier Ruiz
Michael Jabri-Pickett
Mazhar Farooqui Sabir
Maysam Makhmalbaf
Amin Wahidi

Archival
FKH Media
Nelofer Pazira
Mozhdah Jamalzadah
Sahar Parniyan
Shogofa Sediqi
Brishkay Ahmed
Roxana Chapela
Women Make Movies
Wright’s Media
Reuters
Erik de Castro
Khaleej Times
OC Metro Magazine
Mark Savage
Shutterstock
Getty Images
CBC Archive Sales
Greystone Books

Kandahar Trailer footage provided by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
The Georgia Straight

Ideacity photo courtesy of Moses Znaimer
National Film Board of Canada Archives
George W. Bush Presidential Library
Barack Obama Presidential Library
Guardian News & Media Ltd 2024
Pond5 footage provided by Abuair
Photo from Behind the Headlines courtesy of: the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities
Research Institute, Trinity College Dublin
Photo of Mozhdah Jamalzadah taken on the set of Red Snow (Zhoh Daatsik Pictures)
courtesy of HAUITM

Attribution
Los Angeles Times
The Bikini That Got the World Talking Equality
Kimi Yoshino, November 20, 2003
The Bombay Times
Agents of change or miss-representations?
Purnima Sharma and Piyali Dasgupta, September 9, 2006

Music
“Devil’s Got a Gun”
Performed by Whitehorse
Courtesy of Six Shooter Records Inc.

“Dokhtare Afghan (Afghan Girl)”
Performed by Mozhdah Jamalzadah

Senior Marketing Manager
Laurianne Désormiers

Marketing Project Manager
Geneviève Bérard

Marketing Coordinator
Michelle Rozon

Publicist
Katja De Bock
Jennifer Mair

Production Administrator
Nathan Conchie
Carla Jones

Executive Producer
Shirley Vercruysse

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