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          March 19 – 30, 2025

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              The Last Ambassador

              Natalie Halla / Austria / 2025 / World Premiere / 75 min

              What do you do as an ambassador for Afghanistan when the Taliban take power and you are a feminist? You fight back - at least if you're Manizha Bakhtari.

              Manizha Bakhtari is the Afghan ambassador in Vienna when the Taliban takes power in 2021. Overnight, she finds herself in the bizarre situation of representing, on paper at least, a country whose government she does not support and which has no international recognition.

              In difficult economic and personal circumstances, Bakhtari decides to stand up to the Taliban and continue her courageous fight for the rights of Afghan women and girls. Through her Daughters program, she provides Afghan schoolgirls with the opportunity to educate themselves in secret, while also organizing political resistance against the Taliban on the international stage as an ambassador. 

              In increasingly difficult circumstances, she became one of the most important international spokespersons for Afghan women, true to her motto: ‘Peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of justice’.