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THE LAST AMBASSADOR

By Natalie HALLA

Documentary - Completed 2025

Afghanistan's last female ambassador, Manizha Bakhtari, is risking everything in her fight for the rights of girls and women in Afghanistan.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Documentary, Female director
- Countries
- AUSTRIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FARSI
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Natalie HALLA
- Writer(s)
- Natalie HALLA
- Producer(s)
- Arash T.RIAHI (Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH), Peter DRÖSSLER (Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmH), Sabine GRUBER (Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmH), Natalie HALLA (Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH)
- Synopsis
- The Afghan ambassador in Vienna, Manizha Bakhtari, has found herself in a bizarre situation since the Taliban took power: she represents a country whose old government has fled and whose new Taliban government is not recognized internationally. Despite financial and logistical isolation, Manizha Bakhtari is defying the Taliban to continue her fight for the rights of Afghan women and girls as an ambassador. Through her ‘Daughters’ programme, she enables secret education to Afghan schoolgirls while organising political resistance against the Taliban as an ambassador. Under increasingly difficult conditions, she becomes one of the most important international spokespersons for the women of Afghanistan, true to her motto ‘peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of justice’.