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“When I was 8 years old, girls from my province weren’t allowed to go to school. I was this little shepherd girl. I would run after sheep and cows, hiking with them in the mountains. It brought me closer to nature, and it was the first time I ever guided someone,” says 22-year-old Fatima Haidari, who is believed to be the first female tour guide in Afghanistan.
As a guide for Untamed Borders, a company that specialises in trips to less-trodden parts of the world, Haidari has hosted eight foreign travel groups since the beginning of 2020. While her work has been affected by the pandemic, she has received guests as recently as March and April, and hopes to welcome another group soon.
Champions, will impact Arab audiences and transform the lives of people with physical disabilities.
Champions stars Yassir Al Saggaf, Fatima Al Banawi and Khaled Al Harbi, alongside real people with special needs cast from the Help Centre in Jeddah, a non-profit organisation for people with disabilities.
The film, which was shot in Saudi Arabia
, tells the story of a football coach who gets expelled for a fight during a game that goes viral and as a result he is sentenced to community service which involves him coaching a team of people with disabilities.
In a surprising turn of events, the coach finds himself in an extraordinary journey of learning, one he wasn’t ready for.