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Today's trailer is for "Sonita," a documentary about a young Afghan woman's dreams and the harsh realities of her world, which will screen at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, which starts in 30 days.
The documentary centers on Sonita, an 18-year-old Afghan refugee in Iran, who thinks of Michael Jackson and Rihanna as her spiritual parents and dreams of becoming a big-name rapper. Her actual parents have other plans: to sell her for $9,000 as a bride. As Sonita's story unfolds, director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami goes from observer to participant in it.
"Sonita" will screen in the festival's World Cinema Documentary competition.
— Sean P. Means