The Prag Film Festival  Al Qamar 2024

FARIBA SUMANSKA  (Comments & Viewpoints)

by Paiman Davarifard & Fariba Sumanska

image: Fariba Sumanska  Prag Film Festival Al Qamar 2024

foto: courtesy of Fariba Sumanska.

imagofeminae autumn 2024 # XLI - CINEMA

CINEMA

INTERNATIONAL – REPORT & INTERVIEW
image: Roya Mahboob (Afghanistan–USA)
Vision and Resistance in “Rule Breakers”

In Rule Breakers(2025), Afghan entrepreneur and digital pioneer Roya Mahboobstands at the heart of a true story that transcends borders — a portrait of women who create change through intelligence, courage, and faith in knowledge. As the founder of the first Afghan girls’ robotics team, Mahboob became a symbol of education as freedom, and of persistence against fear and limitation.

In the film, she appears not as a fictional heroine but as herself — a woman whose vision has already changed the lives of hundreds of girls. Her presence brings authenticity and emotional gravity to a story rooted in reality: one of learning, exile, and the belief that technology can be a form of resistance.

imagofeminaepresents a portrait and interviewwith Roya Mahboob — photographed by Paiman Davarifard— capturing the quiet strength of a woman who has carried a generation’s hope for a different future.

Berlin – November 2025
Appearing in imagofeminae autumn 2025 XLVI