Love Marriage in Kabul: A Memoir

In 2006, Sanaz Fotouhi, a young woman in her twenties, travels to Afghanistan with filmmaker Amin Palangi to make a film. Seven years and four trips later their feature documentary Love Marriage in Kabul wins awards and the hearts of audiences in Australia and around the world.

Love Marriage in Kabul: a memoir, winner of the Peter Blazey Fellowship 2019, is the behind-the-scenes account of the hardships and heartaches, tears and joys of the seemingly impossible project of making a film in Afghanistan. It is the story of a young woman’s determination to confront her fears to provide an insight into the hidden world of Afghanistan’s widows and orphans. With rare compassion and lucidity, Sanaz Fotouhi chronicles her inner struggles and external events and leads us to interrogate our own notion of humanity.

“This is a beautifully written memoir about local traumas and predicaments, pitching them – often uneasily – against global movement and an increasingly cosmopolitan self-awareness.” – Judges of the University of Melbourne’s Peter Blazey Fellowship