The first time 19-year-old Sonita Alizadeh's parents tried to sell her into marriage, she was 10 years old. "I wasn’t sad because I didn’t know what they were talking about," Sonita remembered during ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 06: Rapper Sonita Alizadeh attends Tina Brown's 7th Annual Women In The World Summit Opening Night at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on April 6, 2016 in New York ...

Her family wanted to sell her as a bride. An Iranian film director saved her by breaking the main rule of documentary filmmaking: do not interfere. The story became one of the best documentaries of ...

This story is part of True/False Conversations, a series of in-depth interviews with the filmmakers of this year's True/False Film Fest. Find the rest of them here or download the podcast on iTunes.

Midway through “Sonita,” documentarian Rokhsareh Ghaeemmaghami faces a difficult choice: remain at a professional distance from her subject, or contribute money so 18-year-old Sonita’s mom doesn’t ...

Sonita Alizada's eyes are bruised, her scratched cheeks dripping blood. Stamped in the middle of her forehead is a barcode, just below a sparking tiara with a white veil attached. Wearing a wedding ...

Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami’s absorbing portrait of a refugee in Iran is endlessly surprising and calls into question the role of a film-maker The documentary film-maker Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami discovered a ...

An Afghan teenager is protesting her country's practice of selling child brides through the unlikely medium of rap music. Sonita Alizadeh, 19, who was just 10 years old when her Muslim parents first ...

Rap music and hip hop activism occupy a powerful place in popular culture. Conscious rappers across the globe have long been using the appeal of their music to communicate a message of empowerment and ...

Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami's documentary on a teenage Tehran rapper was a wide-margin winner of the audience award at the Dutch festival. By Neil Young Not so much “good girl gone bad” as “good girl done ...