Nadia (2021) Movie Script
1
Well, I am... am I, like, eight?
Eight, I think.
I remember because now, again,
because of war and everything
we've moved really close
to my dad's work.
And I remember, like, that
he, you know, obviously will go...
to a lot of places,
but you always come back
like, around 8.00pm.
And that day, my mom,
one thing my mom always has
is, like, she has a crazy intuition.
And then the clock was
like six, seven
and then she was getting
more nervous.
Eight, nine...
nothing happened around like, mid...
before midnight,
the driver came back.
He was like, "Yes,
I drove him to this place
and he... he didn't show up again."
I knew my mom was upset
and I could read out of her
that she was in a bad state
of mind and...
And then someone told her that,
listen, stop this insane search.
So he... they had taken her
to this, like, desert
where, apparently,
they used to execute people.
And he was shot in the...
from the back.
The guy who had told us,
to my mom was like
usually, you can't really find
the remainings either
because there are
so many wild animals
and they eat the bodies.
And then, you know,
slowly, my mom figured out
that there's almost, like,
no future for...
Yeah. Six women, I guess.
So, yeah, she made
the plans of us to...
to find safety somewhere else.
So...
(Foreign language)
- Hello.
- Hi, Mom.
Hi, my child, how are you?
Mommy!
I am calling you because
I am planning to go to Afghanistan.
On December 11th.
- It's the only feasible time.
- It's not great timing.
Yeah I know, but...
It stinks and it's not very clean either.
You should pick
a better time to go there...
Yeah.
...when you can
at least eat fresh fruit.
Don't. Don't think about it.
It's not the point.
I can't help it. You have
to understand some things.
It's out of my hands.
I don't get to decide
when I have the time or not.
My schedule is unchanged.
So stop saying that.
It's not like I'm traveling
to have a good time.
Dad's medals.
I put his medals in a box.
There were plenty of his things.
His medals, his military suits...
I asked if my aunt kept it for me
and her daughter told me
"We kept them for two years
but because we feared the Taliban,
everyone ran away.
We were told if the Taliban
found out we had those military suits
they would definitely kill us."
So I don't know
what my aunt did with them.
At some point, she buried the medals.
- Where?
- I don't think you can find them.
I don't know where she put them.
I don't even have my cousin's number.
My poor aunt died two years ago.
So, I don't know.
Try to find something that's buried
for 20 years.
My God, imagine.
How sick would that be
if I found out my dad's medal?
That's been buried for 20 years.
You can imagine that.
So...
So I love when it's sunny.
It makes me happy.
I'm kidding, they're my teammates.
(Foreign language)
It's so hard.
- Too low.
- Yeah.
It's over there?
All good?
- And you?
- Everything's fine.
I've been focused on possession.
You have a tendency
to group together.
Use the whole pitch.
Play wide and play simple.
Kadi, that goal you scored
you centered the ball initially,
you were spontaneous.
Nadia, you then redirected to Sarah
who was coming in behind.
(Foreign language)
We...
we sit in the car in the middle
of the night, drove the entire night.
My mom was wearing the burqa.
I think we were, like,
having something on our heads
but not, like, non-burqa stuff.
Minivan to Pakistan.
They're just...
I remember that
there was a bit confusion.
I think first, you know,
when you cross the border to Pakistan
is like Peshawar area.
And then from there we were
in a place called Karachi.
We were living in the first floor
with, like, nothing, basically.
It was just like the floors.
We just sleep on the floors.
We used to... three days to buy.
It was, like, just buy it from...
directly from the street
just like, you know,
you used to buy...
What is it called?
Meat sauce in a bag.
You know, and then you had
the little thing that you put it.
And then with toast,
we just... you see that.
I usually... actually love that.
Honestly, it taste so good.
You know, this human smuggler,
I think, is Pakistani
he used to tell my mom that
"If you wanna have fake passports
that would all match
with the description
of these three of your kids.
I can send them to Holland."
And my mom was like,
"No... We stay together."
And then one day,
he came and he was like
"We found, like, a passport
matching you guys.
A single female with five kids
and obviously Pakistanis.
And you have to make sure
that you're... they don't discover
that you're not Pakistani."
We did, as I was told
and we followed this guy
to the airport
sat there,
go through the security check
without any problems.
Yeah. First time on the flight,
and then, yeah, we came to Italy
and this guy was waiting for us.
He probably knew our description.
He came and picked us up.
I don't know how long we drove.
For a while, I guess.
And then we were...
We went into this...
He opened the door to this apartment.
The toilet was nasty.
Really nasty. My God.
Like, the toilet was like...
People are... just shite everywhere
and there's pee everywhere
like, oh, stinking so bad.
So I was like, I don't wanna...
First of all, I don't wanna lay here
because it's dirty.
Secondly, I'm just gonna sit
in the corner.
I'm not gonna eat because then
I have to go to the toilet.
And then there's a guy
came in, same guy
and he was, like,
"Let's go, let's go."
He took the back.
We followed him in the car.
Sit there.
We drove somewhere to this...
to this parking spot for trucks,
I guess.
And then he was telling,
"You're gonna run here."
And my mom was as confused
as we were, like
no one knew what was happening.
And again,
you can't really ask questions
about what is happening
because these people are criminals
in some ways, you know
and even though they helped us a lot,
but they still look like gangsters.
My mom took...
had my little sister in her arms.
And Getti and I was trying to,
like, take the bags
and then little two other ones.
We helped each other somehow
to get inside of the truck.
We were told to sit there
and don't say anything
because if you get discovered,
you're gonna get back to prison.
We drove for, I don't know, ages.
I felt... it was cold.
I was hungry.
And then, yeah, he opened up the door
and he's like, "Get out..."
It took us, you know, a bit of time
to figure out where we were
and walking around
and see what's happening.
So we were in Denmark.
I am going to sign this
and you give it to the kids, ok?
At some point, when signing my name
my handwriting
got smaller and smaller.
It started out as Nadia Nadim.
Then it became N. Nadim.
And then Nadim. See?
- Now you just do whatever.
- I just do an X now. Kidding.
He had 48 medals.
He kept them in a box.
(Foreign language)
Will you find them?
I gave them a box
and asked them to keep it for me
because I would come back
for it one day.
I called my aunt a few years later,
when she was still alive
to ask if she had kept it.
She said she was afraid the Taliban
would find it, so she hid it.
Where?
Well, in one of the rooms.
No burkas there at least.
If they knew your father
was a general
they would have persecuted her.
Yes, we were conscious of that.
Beaten her and made sure
her life was hell.
- Hi.
- Morning.
(Foreign language)
I brought my brother-in-law along.
I'm looking forward to today.
- Big crowd.
- I hope they have a good day.
- I'm sure they will.
- Me too.
For the first half hour,
you'll be with Peter and Jakob
practicing your passes
and working on your fitness.
What's your name?
I love that you run all the time!
Top-notch.
That way you'll never shoot too high.
One more time.
Yes, good. Follow it!
Great, girls. Looking good!
Thirty seconds more
and then we meet up here.
Nice kick. Follow it. Run for it.
Hi, Beate.
Look wherever,
just not straight into the camera.
- Could you sign my shirt?
- Yes, sure.
It's gorgeous.
I would like to be someone
who instigates change.
Are you still an ambassador
for the Danish Refugee Council?
Yes, and the Football Foundation,
UNESCO
and "From Street to School".
I feel like I have a platform
which can take me far...
I invest a lot of energy
when I have the time
which means many of my holidays.
But I know that I'm reaching out
to people who really need a hand.
- Are you taking a break?
- One semester.
You already did 11?
Eleven and 12, yes.
I need 10, which is Psychiatry.
Right.
I read somewhere...
plastic surgeon, right?
I'd love to do that.
Reconstructive plastic surgery.
The reason is fairly simple.
I find it creative and engaging.
Will you join
Doctors Without Borders?
It's one of my goals.
I'd love to do that.
- When we was in Pakistan
- Yeah.
- my dad would sell leather jackets
- For real?
in the market.
- For real ones?
- Yeah, yeah.
So then they went to Moscow,
they started working over there
and then we had made enough
for my dad to send
sort of the family over but not him.
We was in London
for four years before...
before my dad actually came.
So my mom and every one of us,
we kind of started living a life
where he wasn't around anymore.
And I remember I used to be young
and I used to pray like
"Oh, God, please,
I just want my dad to come home.
I just want my dad to come home."
That was like my biggest dream
when I was there.
So the day
when he actually reached home
it was like after four years.
I was just had this, like, big smile
on my face for like six, seven hours.
It was like, just cozying up
next to him for ages.
Say it. Who's your...
Just say it, mom,
just to make it clear.
- Between all your children.
- All of them. All of them.
My God, who makes your heart happy?
You.
That's it. I'm your favorite.
- Oh, my God.
- She said I love all of them
but you make my heart happy.
- So...
- I'm like, indirectly...
that means you love me the most.
I got you.
Yeah, I had some flowers
in the living room.
Not a single one, not two, lots.
You put flowers everywhere.
Yes, because I love it.
You made us pose?
That's not natural.
It's staged, right?
It looks like it's staged.
I'm out.
She was too young.
Those were interesting times.
I want to be with you.
But I don't want you to come with me.
What would happen if I went alone?
Well, you don't know the place,
you've forgotten everything.
Whereas I have a few contacts,
who could help you.
But what have I forgotten?
Apart from my clothing?
It's better that I go with you.
May God protect us.
May God have mercy
on our poor people.
I hope this bloody war ends.
People need peace.
Everyone is exhausted.
Yeah.
Good times.
Well.
Pass the ball!
- Hello.
- Hi, Michael. Nice to meet you.
My agent, Michael.
As a professional sportsperson
who has become a top athlete
what's it like to be a woman?
You know, of course,
I think when you...
when you see upon to be an athlete
a female athlete, and being
the main athlete is so different
and there are so many aspects to it.
I think, you know,
one thing is like building a family.
It's obviously really hard because...
because it's the... it's the woman
who has to get pregnant and be away,
you know, like...
and then it's so hard
for the ones who...
I know a lot of athletes
who try to be pregnant
and then try to come back.
And it's always so hard
to be in the same level again.
So it's... I feel it's...
it's hard because sometimes
you feel like you have to
sacrifice a lot to play football.
And also in terms of finances,
it's so different, you know
because with...
the male players, you...
Everywhere they go, they have
the entire family in touch with them.
You know, they have their kids,
their wife, family, everyone
because they make enough money.
I think with the females,
it's different.
I, like, I don't think
that the salaries are there
where you can have your entire family
and the men is gonna give up
their, like, lives
to be with you, a house man, you know
because there's no really...
there's not enough money in it.
If you're a full time professional
and, you know
and playing this level
it can easily become really lonely
also sometimes, you know
because you sacrifice
and everything to be a part
and running, chasing this ball
from everyone.
And... I think sometimes
people don't see that, you know
they always see like,
"Oh, yeah, training is fun.
You, your... It's so nice
for you to travel the world,"
you know.
I think sometimes
they forget the sacrifices
that you put into it, you know.
And I think women sacrifice
a lot more than, than men do.
I need to clean my apartment like,
really clean
because my mom was like
"What is this?"
No, there is,
there is two strategies.
The first one is to clean everything.
The second one is to let them say
"Oh, sorry, Mama,"
and Mama will clean everything.
Yeah, no. I just wanna...
Marie, are you cold?
Marie's ice cold.
That must be it.
Always.
Marie, I like that attitude.
It's cool.
Okay, down to the river.
No, I know, I know.
The plan this Christmas
is for me to go to Afghanistan.
For Christmas?
- What do you think?
- Well...
To me, that seems...
tricky, no? It will be tricky.
Yes, but that's the only time I have.
Afterwards...
Is it something you want to do?
100%.
I think we need to check in
with the club's head of security.
We need to talk to him
and find out...
what the risks are if you go there.
We have to be sure it's safe.
I mean, it's not safe, but we need
to organize things carefully.
- Yeah.
- Because for the club...
It will be the first time in 22 years
that I've been back to Afghanistan.
But I want to go back
to try and find something
that belonged to my father.
Have you spoken to anyone over there
to see how it might work?
My mother knows someone
who still lives in Afghanistan.
But I've never spoken with them.
Do other members of your family
go there often?
- No.
- No?
Only my mother has been back.
Twice since we left.
And did she have any problems
over there, or was it fine?
No. Honestly, it wasn't fine.
So when I told my mother
that I was going to Afghanistan
she wasn't very happy about it.
But she understands
it's something I want to do.
That's all there is to it.
We'll just have to see how it goes.
You know, I think, it's obviously,
it was a mixed...
I was really upset that, obviously,
I've missed, lost my dad.
I think the most...
the thing that made me upset
was seeing my mom so being, so upset
and... but for me, also,
it was weird because
I feel like almost for six,
seven years
I didn't believe my dad was dead.
I always thought that
he's gonna show up one day
and I felt almost like,
sometimes I used to see him
you know, I'd be like,
"Oh, did you see this guy?"
He was looking like my dad, you know?
So I always, always felt
that he... I... I saw him.
And, you know, at the beginning,
that was what I felt.
Later on, I felt like,
maybe I'm not gonna see him again.
Maybe he has found another family,
like, you know, maybe he has left us.
That was, you know, my next thing.
And then, you know, like again,
this feeling of him showing up
or me seeing him places,
I used to see him a lot of places
which was fucking weird.
Like, I'll be like, I'm 100% sure.
I just saw my dad there.
You know, like, I felt like,
the time I understood
why I was... what was happening
it was like
when I was writing my book
and someone told me
this is your way of...
they say when you're sorrow
or your like, grief, you know
you... think you're seeing people.
Mom!
- Oh, my God.
- (Foreign language)
(Foreign language)
How are you?
Mommy!
Mommy!
Lots of homeless people here.
- Really?
- Lots of young people.
There are a lot of young people
from Africa.
I think there are many Afghans too.
When refugees come here,
nobody takes care of them.
Yeah, nobody does.
No one gives them money,
no one gives them an education
no one sends them to a refugee camp.
So they walk down the streets
until they reach other countries.
- Yes. They walk down the streets.
- How do they cope in winter?
They make a fire.
They probably can't work here.
No, they can't.
- Is he drunk?
- He's high.
Yes, it's a shame.
You walk too fast,
you've left me behind.
Hello, how are you?
Mom. Where are you going?
I don't know.
Yeah, he always did.
You've got to be quick!
It's a short distance!
That's it,
give it everything you've got!
She told me
she's going to Afghanistan.
She told me she was going
in December. I'm okay with that.
Yes, she'll be there
for three or four days.
Bad timing indeed, but she
has a ten-day holiday in December
otherwise she won't have time.
You weren't cold.
It's getting even colder.
I thought you froze.
No, it just started getting cold.
No, stop.
No!
Are you hungry?
I am.
Nice.
- See you tomorrow.
- Yes.
- Have a good night.
- Good night.
Ciao.
What does a demain mean?
See you tomorrow.
Okay. A demain.
A demain?
- A demain.
- A demain.
I don't think it's a good idea
to come with me.
You know nothing.
I don't want you to come.
It's dangerous.
Listen, you don't even
remember anyone.
Will you try to find your cousins
and call them?
I will find them.
But, first, I will look for Jamshid
and I will ask for his number.
That's the...
other cousin, right?
If you ever go to Kabul,
who will guarantee your safety?
If we don't, who will?
The French Embassy?
'Cause they'll go
through the Embassy.
Let's cross that bridge
when we come to it.
Because Naqeeb told me
"If she wants an armed bodyguard
or something like that
for her safety, I'll find one."
Oh, wow, that's a nice picture.
Yeah.
(Foreign language)
Am I blind?
Shit! It's big, right?
The crazy loss in Islamic countries
or Afghanistan, at least
is that if your husband dies
your son is gonna inherit it.
So if you don't have the son,
it's gonna be the brother.
So suddenly, one thing is, you have
all these crazy people outside
running and destroying everything.
But on the other hand,
you also had people
from your own family, my uncles,
suddenly wanting to be
you know, marrying my mom,
you know, wanting to inherit it.
Properties, cars, money, everything.
'Cause my dad, as a general,
you make a decent living.
My mom was working hard as well,
you know.
And then you have invested in
apartments, like, houses and stuff.
So, you know, suddenly,
there is no way safe for you.
So she had to sell the houses
and like, make them in her name.
So she sold our, you know, properties
for no money.
Sold her gold, like, jewelries
and everything she had
and try to be really low profile
so she didn't get discovered.
And, yeah, one day,
middle of the night
we were like,
"No one's gonna pack anything."
I think we had like a sports bag
or something
like with a bit of clothes
important papers,
the money that my mom had gathered.
And it happened that way.
As long as there wasn't war,
you know, rockets and anything.
Yeah. You're given a second chance,
I guess.
Do you have cumin?
- What?
- Cumin?
No cumin, but I have turmeric.
- You want some?
- No.
Mom, this is how I usually do it.
I'd like to add some ingredients.
No, no, thank you.
So how do you seal the pot?
- This first?
- Yes.
There is not enough water.
- Are you sure?
- Yeah, I'm sure.
Okay, cool.
They buried the medals.
They're made of metal, aren't they?
They won't deteriorate.
I will go
if I find the address
to the house, the garden, wherever
I'll bring a metal detector.
I hope they're right
about the medals.
If they buried them,
we'll find them easily.
Exactly.
I think they sold their house.
But if we look for them in the garden
and if no one took them out
I'll find them, I give you my word.
(Foreign language)
(Foreign language)
(Foreign language)
(Foreign language)
Nadia!
- Nadia! Nadia!
- Nadia! Nadia!
- She took the shot!
- She took the shot!
- She scored!
- She scored!
Viva!
Viva!
- She did it!
- She did it!
- Stop!
- Stop!
- This is...
- Paris!
- This is...
- Paris!
- This is...
- Paris!
Open the door.
- What's up?
- Tony, how are you?
- I'm good, and you? Welcome.
- Good...
Get you, get the rest a bit?
Yeah. How was training?
- Yeah. Good.
- Can you imagine the last page
when they open it,
and they're standing with the trophy?
How sick would that be?
- Yes. Yes.
- Really...
I'm an angel.
And I'm a devil.
Hey, what kind of devil?
You ain't no devil.
You want to be the devil.
What do you think?
My retirement plan.
This is like a good idea.
- Or you want me to
- I mean...
continue your morals. So...
You need to, you need...
this is something you need to feel
for yourself.
And as you say, all the things
that you've been saying, like family.
Friends back home.
All the things you wanna do.
I think that's the most important.
And I think that's, you know,
sums it up like, okay
you, you made peace with retirement.
- The house was sold.
- Okay.
You know the situation
in Afghanistan.
The house does exist,
but we sold it already.
Okay.
And you said that they built
a building over there?
Yes, a huge building was built there.
It was only us before.
Now, there are thirty to forty
families living over there.
Okay.
Do you think
that the garden still exists
or was something built over it?
Sorry, I didn't get
the word "garden".
I am sorry. It's been a long time.
I think I'm losing my Farsi.
The garden is the outdoor place
where there are trees and things.
It's in front of the house...
No, everything has changed.
Everything is different,
it's a new environment.
Okay.
...is the word.
The garden of the house.
Everything's changed. There was
a little square that still exists.
Since you left, you have never been
back to Afghanistan.
I only see pictures of you
on Facebook.
I don't remember your childhood.
We were too young when you left.
That's right. It would be fantastic
if I could come back.
I'd love to be able...
to return to Afghanistan.
Inshallah.
Okay. Have a nice day, goodbye.
Goodbye.
Say hello to your family for me.
Today, the targets of the Taliban's
and the Islamic States
is to focus on the VIP.
This is a reason why,
during all your trip to Afghanistan
we have to take all the measures
to be very low profile.
- Of course.
- Okay. Of course.
We will put on the field
on the ground all the measure
for the escort
- Yeah.
- for your protections.
But all the convoys
will have to be very discreet
- Yeah. Yeah.
- very low profiles.
So except your arrival and your...
- your...
- Departure.
Your departure.
- And the place in the Serena Hotel.
- Yeah.
Because we decided to,
to go inside the hotel.
If it's confirmed doing this,
why all the convoys
and the transfer from one point
to another point
- has to be very low profile.
- Okay.
And we will put on the field
all this kind of measure
to have all the information
before the deployment.
- Yeah.
- That means when we will go
from one point to another point
everything will be secure.
About the clothes.
You are Afghan.
And you will have
to be dressed as an Afghan.
Yeah, not really a fan of that
- because I am Afghan.
- No.
But I've never been fan
of this mug, but, yeah.
Yes, but you have on
a little put your
- passion out just on your hair...
- Yeah... I know, yeah.
not on your face and so on.
I bought myself a black one.
Black, simple, completely black.
Okay. It's nice.
And I bought the thinnest one too.
In Afghanistan,
they wear scarves like this
or make it fall behind like that.
On TV, they wear it like this.
I don't want to wear a hijab.
But you can wear
a jacket with some trousers
and a scarf around your head.
We have the same style in Kabul.
What happens
if you don't wear a scarf?
It's the law in Islamic countries,
you must wear a scarf.
Everyone will stare at you.
You have to wear it.
I don't want to wear a scarf.
You have to.
But for my own sake,
to avoid people staring at me
and so I can feel safe,
I will wear it.
Arkema Cup Day 16
I told them
there was no room for error.
That they may well be remembered
as the first team
to take the title away from Lyon,
after 14 years of consecutive wins.
Fourteen consecutive titles.
And five in the Champions League.
We don't need to win,
but we can't lose.
(Foreign language)
(Foreign language)
You know what?
There's just one left. Just one!
- Hey!
- Hey!
(Foreign language)
(Foreign language)
What just happened?
Lyon just weren't ready for us
(Foreign language)
What just happened?
Lyon just weren't ready for us
- This is...
- Paris!
- This is...
- Paris!
- This is...
- Paris!
I remember this really clearly
because we were sleeping like
in different areas
and... middle of the night,
like you felt that the...
the earth, like, was shaking.
The windows was like...
like smashed, like...
Like, I woke up because of,
you know, the... shock of it.
Like, as if someone just, like,
shook you
and everything is, like,
shaking and the light.
It was like this huge bright light.
And... my mom ran into the room,
like, you know, like...
Screaming, "Get up!"
Everyone's just like crawling
over the wall and you're hearing like
they're like the sounds of the rocket
because they weren't hitting one.
They used to come in periods,
like, you know?
Like you could hear it, like, coming
and it already hit one
and everyone's like,
shock and adrenaline's running
and we climbed over, running.
And went to the basement
and waited there
until everything like, quiet down.
No one's saying anything.
Everyone is like, you know,
when adrenaline is really running
you're shaking, you know,
and you're like, awake.
So waited there, wait there,
until it was, it was silence again
for a couple of hours.
Went back early in the morning.
And I remember that the entire garden
was full with dead birds.
There were so many, like...
I'm telling you,
like, probably four or 500 birds.
So happy you can come.
- Thank you so much.
- I heard so much good about you.
No. Come on, come on.
National team player, Dr. Dale.
Really honored, thank you.
- Thank you for your time.
- You know, we are waiting for you.
You will become also a doctor,
a surgeon, I hope.
- One day.
- Very soon, yeah?
Yeah. That's the goal, obviously.
And we built the first ever
cardiac surgery center
for children...
in Afghanistan.
And since then
I'm working there as a head
of the cardiac surgery.
That's pretty cool. One day.
One day when I'm done
I'll love to come and, like,
get some experience, you know.
- Promise.
- Deal.
Before I lost Dad
I remember we used to play.
When he died
we were not allowed
to go out anymore.
My mother stayed low profile.
We kept moving.
Sometimes we lived here,
sometimes there.
Yeah, during the war,
it was really difficult
like 4,000 rockets a day.
Then, when the Taliban were there,
we played football
because it was the only hobby
that everybody had in common.
- Sports, huh?
- Sports, football.
But you had to keep a low profile.
Yeah, we had to cover ourselves
to play.
The games were crowded.
- Yeah, 20,000 people.
- 20,000?
Yeah, so many
that when there was a tie
and a penalty shoot-out
people would go onto the pitch.
We had to ask them
to leave us some space.
It was crowded.
People would place bets.
Weren't you scared
something might happen?
No, it was not that dangerous.
There was this one time...
I saw this video
that occurred on a national pitch,
I think, where people were...
executed.
- Sadly, that happened a few time.
- A few?
Yes, we had a game once,
we were warming up
when a Taliban pick-up truck
showed up.
A woman is being executed.
She is accused of killing
her husband with a hammer.
She has seven children
and they are present here today.
- Salaam.
- This is Nadia.
Good morning, I am David Martinon,
the French Ambassador.
Welcome! I am Nadia.
Every day, they kill someone.
They want to create a climate
of fear.
They want to keep
on pressuring everyone.
So, so everyone's scared
and, you know...
- Listen or obey.
- Yeah.
Because of fear.
Control the masses with fear.
Right.
- What? That's so...
- Yeah.
- Yeah, crazy.
- Crazy world, huh?
That's sad.
Didn't tell you what he did
for the little girl that was shot
at the dusty, busty maternity?
- No.
- So...
Oh, is that recently, yeah?
- Yeah.
- Yeah...
- Three months ago.
- Yeah...
So there was...
- horrible terrorist attack
- Yeah, I saw that.
in Kabul, in the,
in the Hazara district of Kabul.
- In a maternity.
- Yeah.
It was launched by Daesh, by the ISKP
the Islamic State in, in Khorasan.
And they mostly target...
She has women, etcetera.
And what they did on that day
was that they killed women
who were delivering babies
or who just had delivered babies
and even kids were shot.
And this little girl, I mean,
she was 40...
40 minutes old
when the attack started.
- Forty.
- Forty.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- And she was shot in the leg.
Oh, my God.
By a bullet of an AK 47.
And her mother died.
Her grandmother died.
And she was sent to FMIC,
to the French medical hospital.
And he saved her leg.
Yeah, I don't want to sadden you
- but the situation
- No, it's the reality.
- is really bad right now.
- Yeah.
The situation is, has been bad
for a long time, but...
You know,
it's been three years that...
Afghanistan is now
on top of the list of the countries
that are impacted by terrorism.
- Crazy.
- That's almost...
Fifty percent of every victim
of terrorism in the world is Afghan.
So you know this blue?
- Yeah.
- What does it mean?
Oh, my God. That's so cool.
I love it. I'm going to be
wearing this everywhere.
I'll be like...
So we both, we want to
- to give you this.
- Oh, my God. Thank you so much.
- It's beautiful.
- I really appreciate this.
Thank you. Oh, I love it.
Thanks. That's so cool.
Well, I'm going to wear it
in my first day in there.
Thank you.
I felt like after 21 years,
I would love to go to see
just to remember,
like the memories of...
Are they still the same thing
that I remembered?
And also because, you know,
this is the country I was born in.
And, you know, it's my...
my mom, my dad
everyone is from there.
You know, my... I lost my dad.
But I also want to go, kinda connect
with him somehow, you know.
I want to go back to see
and I know you're telling
all the stories,
you know, that it's dangerous
and there's like attack every day,
you know?
And I think if also they would know
who, like, someone like me
is coming to the country
I think also maybe I'll be a target
just because what I stand for
in terms of that women
should be allowed
- to do whatever about...
- There is no doubt about that.
- I'm sorry. But there is no doubt.
- Yeah.
You know,
like 'cause I think everything
that they stand for, I hate it.
I detest it.
You know, I think it's disgusting
and that you cannot, as a women
or, being treated like a human being,
you know.
So for me, knowing that
but still have this desire
to want to go.
You're in Afghanistan right now,
near Kabul.
I am in Afghanistan.
- Kabul.
- How's that?
Being a prisoner, like always.
First of all,
the security briefing was sick.
We met with this guy
who makes sure, like
the people of NATO are
safe, you know
and things like, yeah,
you have to wear this armed vest
you know, bulletproof vest.
I don't know
if you're wearing those stuff
you're going to be
in armed vehicles, you know
and we have to train
if there's someone
who attached a bomb to your car
you have seven seconds
to jump out of the car.
Some way, I was like,
"Damn, that's scary."
On the other hand, I was like,
"Oh, James Bond movie."
You know? How... I wanna do this?
Oh, you have a gun.
Hey, don't, please.
Even, you are pointing at me.
I'm like, in the camera.
Don't shoot me.
Don't... don't worry,
I'm not gonna shoot.
- That's a gun.
- This is for our protection.
We have to keep this in the room
for bomb blasts today.
Today only. Imagine.
Yeah, it's four places.
That's crazy, you know?
I mean, even I do not recommend you
to come right now
because the situation
is really not good.
Bomb blasts, suicide bombers.
These things are happening every day.
And so many people are dying.
You know, they don't even talk
about it on TV.
You don't hear it on the news.
Most of it, they just hide.
But situation is really,
really bad right now.
And this other thing that,
that you just mentioned, you know
- they stick bombs into the cars.
- Yeah...
That's also some...
it has become so common
so common that it's like out
of control. It's crazy.
So it's really bad right now.
I wouldn't want you to come.
You know, for me, it's like,
as I said, I'm a prisoner right now.
It's been two months.
I'm not even allowed to,
like, cross the road here.
I have to stay inside all the time.
And obviously,
when you come to Afghanistan
you would want to go around.
That's the reason I want to come
to see some of the stuff.
You know, you wouldn't be able
to do all that
because it's really dangerous.
But, you know, for me,
it's different.
I come here
to give people hope, right?
I'm here to do the show
and then I just stay in my room.
But for you, you know, if you come,
at least they should spend a few days
- and come while...
- To see some of the stuff.
- the situation's better.
- Yeah.
You know, it's a bit safe right now.
Really.
It's, it's not good.
I would tell you the same thing.
I love you. I miss you.
And I'm definitely going to come
this summer and see you in Istanbul.
If you're not coming to Denmark.
Yes, come to Istanbul.
Don't come to Afghanistan, please.
Not right now.
Okay.
I already told you
that I know the current situation
in Afghanistan better.
And it's the worst situation
ever at the moment.
People are killed every day.
May God wipe out
those who are the cause of this all.
- Hi!
- Hi!
And do this with your arms.
Look over there. It's our pose.
The one where you are
too cool for photos.
We'll go there in summer.
I think in May, my season ends.
Will you come home
when your contract ends?
- Then you'll come to Denmark?
- (Foreign language)
My PSG contract ends this summer.
- Then you'll come to Denmark?
- I don't know.
That will be enough.
- Enough?
- Yeah.
I would like to go to the USA
Spain, England, Germany...
No, that's enough.
I want to be done with my semester.
Finish your last semester
and go find a job in a hospital.
Why? Maybe there are other things
I want to do.
Well, it's where doctors work.
(Foreign language)
You studied for
11 semesters for what?
Fun?
Yeah.
You have to serve the people,
they need it.
If only we could help
our poor people.
Do you remember
when this house was built?
Fine, thanks. I am in Denmark now.
Mom would like to talk to you,
like I told you.
- Good morning.
- How are you?
Fine, thanks, and you?
I am Hamida, glad to meet you.
I heard a lot about you,
it's an honor.
- So you are not coming to Kabul?
- No, I'm not.
The French Ambassador, the security
and the insurance company
told me it's impossible right now.
Oh, my god, he's so small.
- He had an operation yesterday.
- Yesterday.
Heart surgery?
Nadia, when you come
you'll work with us
either in this room or that one.
She promised us that
when she is done with football
she will come to Kabul
and work with us.
Of course, why not?
At any rate,
she won't play football anymore.
She has to work on her future.
Before your call,
I told her I really wanted to see her
help our poor people someday.
Love you. I love you.
Give me love. Love. Give me love.
She wants love!
I have turned into a cat.
Hush. Sit up straight.
Mom, I missed you.
Mommy!
Hey, Nadia!
Muskan!
Hey!
There you are.
Hello, love.
What's up?
I took a walk with Mom.
The boat rocked and Muskan said true
Nadia, I do love you
What shall we build
And where shall we hide?
I also find it kind of strange.
How can we be so different?
How is it possible? Why?
There are five of us,
all so different. Why is that?
With everything from...
motivation and how we do stuff
to looks and how we react.
How feminine one is
and how tomboyish another is...
It's crazy. I don't get it.
(Foreign language)
Hey!
(Foreign language)
I think one thing that is
in common for all of us is like
you know, I mean,
having a strong character
all of us, you know.
It might be that we are...
It looks different the way we dress
you know, like express
our like, feminine side
or masculine side, is so different.
If you don't look as close,
you wouldn't think we're sisters.
And I think for the three of us,
the oldest one is something
that we got from my dad.
And I think this has like spread out
to... the youngest also like, I think
this tomboyish thing.
Getti, is super tomboy,
you know like super, super.
And Diana is also... I would say,
I'm like... I'm super balanced.
I feel like I can be super feminine
when I have to be dressy, girly,
all that.
But I can also be like a super
macho tomboy when it has to be.
But I think the reason
is because, yeah
once we... we were raised
without Dad.
Secondly, we had a dad
who actually wanted boys, you know.
That was like, everyone wants boys
in Afghanistan because our first...
they continue your name,
like, you know
your name is gonna go
to the next generation
with the son, not the daughter.
So your bloodline is keeps going.
And secondly, the inheritance part
like, you inherit everything
with a boy.
So everyone is like, you know,
the old kingdoms.
You wanna have a son to have a king.
And I think for us, you know,
having like...
having five daughters
and my dad kind of raise us
like boys, you know.
I think it had more impact on certain
than others.
Something that feels like,
you know, I'll never forget.
And I think that's the mindset
that he kind of push in us.
Getti had a fight with, like, a boy
a bit older than her
and she had...
he had, like, beaten her up
so when she came up
and was super crying
like, really upset.
Like, and then my dad
got super pissed.
I was like, "What?
Someone beat you up. Come here."
And she was, he was about to,
like, lose his shit, you know?
And everyone, we knew like
when to say something or not to say.
I was always in shock looking,
"What's gonna happen."
He took off his belt
and he was like...
Take this in your hand.
I'll show you
how you can get him down
even though he's bigger than you.
You're gonna go grab it
around his head
and then you push him down.
And then if anything is...
if anyone is gonna
you know, get involved
they're going to deal with me."
He took out his... we had,
we had a lot of guns in the house.
He took out, he's, like,
one of them, almost like a sniper.
He went to the balcony.
He was like, "You go, I got your back
and you better fucking do
as I told you."
Getti went down and
we were all watching, you know
from the upstairs.
What's gonna happen, you know?
My mom was like,
"What are you doing? They are kids.
Come on, come down."
She's like,
"No... this is not about that."
She went down and this guy was like,
almost, like, half laughing.
And she was, like,
crying because she had her belt
in the back and she did it.
Then she came back
and my dad was proud of it.
(Foreign language)
All they have got,
the more I understand how
like, how certain people
don't see me as a date.
Like, how certain group of people
would never accept
that I have a different skin color.
Like, you know.
So then I was like,
how, am I going to feel differently
if I'm in Afghanistan
or am I gonna be feeling
the same way?
So it was like, partially also, this,
like, this thing that I wanted to
like, this feeling
I wanna experience.
Is it gonna feel differently there
or I'm still going to be an outsider?
Anyways,
one day I have to, just to see.
Just to feel the feeling.
So different or it's like,
"Oh, it's the same."
Fuck's sake, Nadia. Why?
You never know.
The sun. I love the sun.
It makes me happy.
Tan me more.
The reason we usually work
with children and families
in France and in Europe
is because the families
we see these days
may have kids that are
as young as you were
when you fled Afghanistan.
We help them.
Even if they made something
for a living back in Afghanistan
and had a normal life
their parents were forced
to leave Afghanistan
because of the war
and security issues
even if they had a job there,
they don't now.
In the beginning
it was really difficult for them.
They lived in tents for a whole month
in Aubervilliers.
One night, the police came
and took them from their tents
- and told them to go somewhere else.
- Yes.
They said they couldn't leave,
so the police hit and pushed them.
I was in a park.
Police made us leave
telling us they would take us
to a camp.
But it was just an excuse
to make us move.
They took us away...
This is France
and the French authorities claim
they have human rights protection
in place.
These are the daughters of the woman
that we are going to meet.
Police shot tear gas at them.
You went to Sweden from Afghanistan?
Yes, we went to Sweden.
Where in Sweden?
Next to Vasteras, in a small village.
Okay.
A village called Norberg.
Were you in a camp
or were you in a house?
In a house. We had accommodation.
The kids went to school,
but my husband and I stayed at home.
There were no classes for us
because we did not have any status.
We suffered a lot
because my oldest daughter
could not go to high school
and continue her studies
because she also lacked any status.
She wanted to continue
with her plans for the future
- so we had to go somewhere else.
- Okay.
Somewhere where our children...
can finish their studies
and achieve their goals.
We have been waiting for so long
but we have not received
any status from Sweden.
Okay.
The kids have just started
to learn French here.
Yeah.
My son goes to school
and my daughters have applied.
They spoke good enough Swedish.
Our two-year-old didn't speak
a word of Farsi, but knew Swedish.
But here, we have to start over.
All of them have
their own dreams and goals.
Yeah.
Through Nimruz province
we got to Iran.
- It took us eight days.
- Okay.
Then, we stayed a month in Iran.
We crossed the mountains
on foot to Turkey.
We were starving and thirsty
after four days
without eating or drinking.
We were on the seashore,
the sea leading to Greece.
(Foreign language)
We reached Greece
and other countries.
I don't remember which ones anymore.
All that way on foot?
Sometimes on foot, sometimes by car.
We walked to reach Turkey,
then we took a boat.
It was a small one,
it measured around 10 meters
but there were 50 people on board
or possibly even more.
We had a lot of problems.
We still do.
I think this is my style, no?
We were ready to lose our life.
- But to be...
- Take your chances, yeah.
Because there you have,
you have no chance to be alive.
So you have to get something.
- Certain death or maybe...
- Exactly.
You're gonna see what future brings
- yeah?
- Exactly.
So my mom ran with me.
I had, like, a bag.
My old sister had the little kid.
Like, my sister got in.
We thought we were going to be
in England, you know
for, I don't know, 50,
50 something plus hours.
Everyone hiding. It was only us.
No one else behind the truck.
And then you stop that.
But you're like, yeah.
We made it in England, you know.
It was like, yeah, get out.
You got out.
Everyone, like, I still believe like,
you know what?
In my brain, it was like 5.00am
in the morning
and, you know, it's a bit dark
in Denmark.
It was east... Eastern morning,
so it's like a holiday.
And, yeah, I was like, Big Ben.
No, it's not here.
London, right? It's not here.
But my mom finds a guy
who was walking his dog
and she was like, where were we?
And this girl was like, yeah, Aganas.
I'm like, where in England is that?
It's not England,
it's Denmark. Yeah.
So from there, you know,
you go to the asylum
put police asylum, refugee camp
and it just like took off.
And I was, again, we were grateful,
even though it wasn't England
we're grateful that
we were together and safe
and having gotten
second chance, you know.
If you had the message
to send to your mom today.
What would you say to your mom?
I love my mom.
I'll take a bullet for her because...
I think our twenties,
you know, easily got married.
And she's a gorgeous lady.
She sacrificed everything for us.
And I just say that I'm grateful,
you know, what she's done now.
We never forget it.
And I'm always gonna
take care of her.
So, yeah.
And... yeah, she, I think she was...
She made us the way we are.
(Foreign language)
And now, I'm gonna eat.
My God.
You made me cry, you made me cry.
That's the... that's the main goal.
I wanna touch each other's hearts.
Yeah, I guess so. Goodbye.
You're making us cry also.
Yeah.
Yeah. It's the way it is.
It could be worse. I could be ugly.
No. Don't worry about it.
Yeah.
Yeah, definitely think one
of the reason
I wanted to go back to Afghanistan
was because of me, you know,
trying to find closure
because I am the daughter
of my father.
You know, like I am her,
his... genes are in me.
Like, you know, I think...
It's not that it has stopped my life.
It hasn't, in no way it has.
It's not because
it makes me not sleep...
because I sleep really well.
But it just will be nice
to, like, you know...
to, like, say properly goodbye.
But it is what it is. Could be worse.
You remember what happened last time
we played basketball?
Yeah. I whupped your ass.
You didn't do shit.
You wanna do that thing.
Air ball! I'm going.
I got you in. I took you out.
And I really hope that
the trip happens one day, you know
- when it gets a bit safer.
- Yeah, it has to.
And I really...
I don't know, yeah,
I really wanna go.
So, you know, after football
you will have
a totally different schedule.
You can run your life in another
- way than you do now.
- I'm don't think I'm gonna have
more time, honestly.
I think is going to have less time.
No, but you can plan your time.
- With all the, oh, yeah...
- You can plan it.
Because it's my...
it's gonna be my schedule.
Exactly. You can plan it better.
So, I mean, now you're bound
by the schedule of your club
and by the national team.
After football, you can...
You can make your own schedule.
- Yeah.
- Basically.
And it's gonna give you time
when it's more secure to go.
You're right.
- Yeah.
- Okay. We do it.
- Do it...
- Let's go.
No. Good job. Good job, Tony.
- Let's go, man.
- Let's go.
- Before it gets too dark.
- Here. Come on.
Hit it.
Hit it.
No, that's, that's the...
(Foreign language)
(Foreign language)
- This is...
- Paris!
Around nine when I came to Denmark.
Refugee camp.
That's where we started.
I think it's kind of fate.
So for me, the field
was just beside the camp.
From nine to one. We were in school
trying to learn Danish
and then from one to midnight
we were outside.
When we discovered that,
beside the camp
those like these amazing
football fields
with the fields to go,
everything's just perfect.
Just the only thing
that was dividing the camp
and the fields was like a fence.
After school we used to go
and watch it from behind the fences
watch other kids play.
First time I saw a girls team
play football and I was like...
You know, when you
kind of feel the moment.
I think that was the...
the spark, you know,
like, a month or two later
I went and asked the coach.
We didn't speak the language.
We just...
I just wanted to be a part
of whatever they were doing.
And he knew what we wanted.
And he was like, "Yeah, come, come."
And from then on,
it was just obsession.
My life has been so crazy.
I've experienced so much.
It feels like, you know,
seven or eight lifetimes already
and I'm only 33 years old.
But it's... I don't know.
I kind of like it, you know
I haven't had a boring life.
It's been a... it's been...
it's been like a bit drama,
a bit action
a bit romance here and there.
It's been a sick movie.
I'm not gonna lie.
So, yeah, it's crazy.
I can't believe it.
I don't even believe it
sometimes myself.
I'm like, damn, man.
Is the rest, the next 30 is all gonna
be that intense also?
I hope not that intense.
I hope intense,
but not that intense, bro.
That's just too much.
I'm like, why me?
Why? Why? Por que?
My God!
I'm like, "Bro, I had enough.
Come on, man, give me a break.
I know you like me,
but this is a bit too much."
Nadia currently plays in the US
before becoming
a reconstructive surgeon.
The Taliban have regained power
in Afghanistan
plunging the country
into chaos and terror.
Dr. Najeebullah Bina
was forced to flee Kabul
after his life was threatened.
Nadia hasn't lost hope of one day
returning to Afghanistan
to find her father's medals.
Danish Asylum Seeker ID Card,
22.04.2000
Translator: IYUNO
Well, I am... am I, like, eight?
Eight, I think.
I remember because now, again,
because of war and everything
we've moved really close
to my dad's work.
And I remember, like, that
he, you know, obviously will go...
to a lot of places,
but you always come back
like, around 8.00pm.
And that day, my mom,
one thing my mom always has
is, like, she has a crazy intuition.
And then the clock was
like six, seven
and then she was getting
more nervous.
Eight, nine...
nothing happened around like, mid...
before midnight,
the driver came back.
He was like, "Yes,
I drove him to this place
and he... he didn't show up again."
I knew my mom was upset
and I could read out of her
that she was in a bad state
of mind and...
And then someone told her that,
listen, stop this insane search.
So he... they had taken her
to this, like, desert
where, apparently,
they used to execute people.
And he was shot in the...
from the back.
The guy who had told us,
to my mom was like
usually, you can't really find
the remainings either
because there are
so many wild animals
and they eat the bodies.
And then, you know,
slowly, my mom figured out
that there's almost, like,
no future for...
Yeah. Six women, I guess.
So, yeah, she made
the plans of us to...
to find safety somewhere else.
So...
(Foreign language)
- Hello.
- Hi, Mom.
Hi, my child, how are you?
Mommy!
I am calling you because
I am planning to go to Afghanistan.
On December 11th.
- It's the only feasible time.
- It's not great timing.
Yeah I know, but...
It stinks and it's not very clean either.
You should pick
a better time to go there...
Yeah.
...when you can
at least eat fresh fruit.
Don't. Don't think about it.
It's not the point.
I can't help it. You have
to understand some things.
It's out of my hands.
I don't get to decide
when I have the time or not.
My schedule is unchanged.
So stop saying that.
It's not like I'm traveling
to have a good time.
Dad's medals.
I put his medals in a box.
There were plenty of his things.
His medals, his military suits...
I asked if my aunt kept it for me
and her daughter told me
"We kept them for two years
but because we feared the Taliban,
everyone ran away.
We were told if the Taliban
found out we had those military suits
they would definitely kill us."
So I don't know
what my aunt did with them.
At some point, she buried the medals.
- Where?
- I don't think you can find them.
I don't know where she put them.
I don't even have my cousin's number.
My poor aunt died two years ago.
So, I don't know.
Try to find something that's buried
for 20 years.
My God, imagine.
How sick would that be
if I found out my dad's medal?
That's been buried for 20 years.
You can imagine that.
So...
So I love when it's sunny.
It makes me happy.
I'm kidding, they're my teammates.
(Foreign language)
It's so hard.
- Too low.
- Yeah.
It's over there?
All good?
- And you?
- Everything's fine.
I've been focused on possession.
You have a tendency
to group together.
Use the whole pitch.
Play wide and play simple.
Kadi, that goal you scored
you centered the ball initially,
you were spontaneous.
Nadia, you then redirected to Sarah
who was coming in behind.
(Foreign language)
We...
we sit in the car in the middle
of the night, drove the entire night.
My mom was wearing the burqa.
I think we were, like,
having something on our heads
but not, like, non-burqa stuff.
Minivan to Pakistan.
They're just...
I remember that
there was a bit confusion.
I think first, you know,
when you cross the border to Pakistan
is like Peshawar area.
And then from there we were
in a place called Karachi.
We were living in the first floor
with, like, nothing, basically.
It was just like the floors.
We just sleep on the floors.
We used to... three days to buy.
It was, like, just buy it from...
directly from the street
just like, you know,
you used to buy...
What is it called?
Meat sauce in a bag.
You know, and then you had
the little thing that you put it.
And then with toast,
we just... you see that.
I usually... actually love that.
Honestly, it taste so good.
You know, this human smuggler,
I think, is Pakistani
he used to tell my mom that
"If you wanna have fake passports
that would all match
with the description
of these three of your kids.
I can send them to Holland."
And my mom was like,
"No... We stay together."
And then one day,
he came and he was like
"We found, like, a passport
matching you guys.
A single female with five kids
and obviously Pakistanis.
And you have to make sure
that you're... they don't discover
that you're not Pakistani."
We did, as I was told
and we followed this guy
to the airport
sat there,
go through the security check
without any problems.
Yeah. First time on the flight,
and then, yeah, we came to Italy
and this guy was waiting for us.
He probably knew our description.
He came and picked us up.
I don't know how long we drove.
For a while, I guess.
And then we were...
We went into this...
He opened the door to this apartment.
The toilet was nasty.
Really nasty. My God.
Like, the toilet was like...
People are... just shite everywhere
and there's pee everywhere
like, oh, stinking so bad.
So I was like, I don't wanna...
First of all, I don't wanna lay here
because it's dirty.
Secondly, I'm just gonna sit
in the corner.
I'm not gonna eat because then
I have to go to the toilet.
And then there's a guy
came in, same guy
and he was, like,
"Let's go, let's go."
He took the back.
We followed him in the car.
Sit there.
We drove somewhere to this...
to this parking spot for trucks,
I guess.
And then he was telling,
"You're gonna run here."
And my mom was as confused
as we were, like
no one knew what was happening.
And again,
you can't really ask questions
about what is happening
because these people are criminals
in some ways, you know
and even though they helped us a lot,
but they still look like gangsters.
My mom took...
had my little sister in her arms.
And Getti and I was trying to,
like, take the bags
and then little two other ones.
We helped each other somehow
to get inside of the truck.
We were told to sit there
and don't say anything
because if you get discovered,
you're gonna get back to prison.
We drove for, I don't know, ages.
I felt... it was cold.
I was hungry.
And then, yeah, he opened up the door
and he's like, "Get out..."
It took us, you know, a bit of time
to figure out where we were
and walking around
and see what's happening.
So we were in Denmark.
I am going to sign this
and you give it to the kids, ok?
At some point, when signing my name
my handwriting
got smaller and smaller.
It started out as Nadia Nadim.
Then it became N. Nadim.
And then Nadim. See?
- Now you just do whatever.
- I just do an X now. Kidding.
He had 48 medals.
He kept them in a box.
(Foreign language)
Will you find them?
I gave them a box
and asked them to keep it for me
because I would come back
for it one day.
I called my aunt a few years later,
when she was still alive
to ask if she had kept it.
She said she was afraid the Taliban
would find it, so she hid it.
Where?
Well, in one of the rooms.
No burkas there at least.
If they knew your father
was a general
they would have persecuted her.
Yes, we were conscious of that.
Beaten her and made sure
her life was hell.
- Hi.
- Morning.
(Foreign language)
I brought my brother-in-law along.
I'm looking forward to today.
- Big crowd.
- I hope they have a good day.
- I'm sure they will.
- Me too.
For the first half hour,
you'll be with Peter and Jakob
practicing your passes
and working on your fitness.
What's your name?
I love that you run all the time!
Top-notch.
That way you'll never shoot too high.
One more time.
Yes, good. Follow it!
Great, girls. Looking good!
Thirty seconds more
and then we meet up here.
Nice kick. Follow it. Run for it.
Hi, Beate.
Look wherever,
just not straight into the camera.
- Could you sign my shirt?
- Yes, sure.
It's gorgeous.
I would like to be someone
who instigates change.
Are you still an ambassador
for the Danish Refugee Council?
Yes, and the Football Foundation,
UNESCO
and "From Street to School".
I feel like I have a platform
which can take me far...
I invest a lot of energy
when I have the time
which means many of my holidays.
But I know that I'm reaching out
to people who really need a hand.
- Are you taking a break?
- One semester.
You already did 11?
Eleven and 12, yes.
I need 10, which is Psychiatry.
Right.
I read somewhere...
plastic surgeon, right?
I'd love to do that.
Reconstructive plastic surgery.
The reason is fairly simple.
I find it creative and engaging.
Will you join
Doctors Without Borders?
It's one of my goals.
I'd love to do that.
- When we was in Pakistan
- Yeah.
- my dad would sell leather jackets
- For real?
in the market.
- For real ones?
- Yeah, yeah.
So then they went to Moscow,
they started working over there
and then we had made enough
for my dad to send
sort of the family over but not him.
We was in London
for four years before...
before my dad actually came.
So my mom and every one of us,
we kind of started living a life
where he wasn't around anymore.
And I remember I used to be young
and I used to pray like
"Oh, God, please,
I just want my dad to come home.
I just want my dad to come home."
That was like my biggest dream
when I was there.
So the day
when he actually reached home
it was like after four years.
I was just had this, like, big smile
on my face for like six, seven hours.
It was like, just cozying up
next to him for ages.
Say it. Who's your...
Just say it, mom,
just to make it clear.
- Between all your children.
- All of them. All of them.
My God, who makes your heart happy?
You.
That's it. I'm your favorite.
- Oh, my God.
- She said I love all of them
but you make my heart happy.
- So...
- I'm like, indirectly...
that means you love me the most.
I got you.
Yeah, I had some flowers
in the living room.
Not a single one, not two, lots.
You put flowers everywhere.
Yes, because I love it.
You made us pose?
That's not natural.
It's staged, right?
It looks like it's staged.
I'm out.
She was too young.
Those were interesting times.
I want to be with you.
But I don't want you to come with me.
What would happen if I went alone?
Well, you don't know the place,
you've forgotten everything.
Whereas I have a few contacts,
who could help you.
But what have I forgotten?
Apart from my clothing?
It's better that I go with you.
May God protect us.
May God have mercy
on our poor people.
I hope this bloody war ends.
People need peace.
Everyone is exhausted.
Yeah.
Good times.
Well.
Pass the ball!
- Hello.
- Hi, Michael. Nice to meet you.
My agent, Michael.
As a professional sportsperson
who has become a top athlete
what's it like to be a woman?
You know, of course,
I think when you...
when you see upon to be an athlete
a female athlete, and being
the main athlete is so different
and there are so many aspects to it.
I think, you know,
one thing is like building a family.
It's obviously really hard because...
because it's the... it's the woman
who has to get pregnant and be away,
you know, like...
and then it's so hard
for the ones who...
I know a lot of athletes
who try to be pregnant
and then try to come back.
And it's always so hard
to be in the same level again.
So it's... I feel it's...
it's hard because sometimes
you feel like you have to
sacrifice a lot to play football.
And also in terms of finances,
it's so different, you know
because with...
the male players, you...
Everywhere they go, they have
the entire family in touch with them.
You know, they have their kids,
their wife, family, everyone
because they make enough money.
I think with the females,
it's different.
I, like, I don't think
that the salaries are there
where you can have your entire family
and the men is gonna give up
their, like, lives
to be with you, a house man, you know
because there's no really...
there's not enough money in it.
If you're a full time professional
and, you know
and playing this level
it can easily become really lonely
also sometimes, you know
because you sacrifice
and everything to be a part
and running, chasing this ball
from everyone.
And... I think sometimes
people don't see that, you know
they always see like,
"Oh, yeah, training is fun.
You, your... It's so nice
for you to travel the world,"
you know.
I think sometimes
they forget the sacrifices
that you put into it, you know.
And I think women sacrifice
a lot more than, than men do.
I need to clean my apartment like,
really clean
because my mom was like
"What is this?"
No, there is,
there is two strategies.
The first one is to clean everything.
The second one is to let them say
"Oh, sorry, Mama,"
and Mama will clean everything.
Yeah, no. I just wanna...
Marie, are you cold?
Marie's ice cold.
That must be it.
Always.
Marie, I like that attitude.
It's cool.
Okay, down to the river.
No, I know, I know.
The plan this Christmas
is for me to go to Afghanistan.
For Christmas?
- What do you think?
- Well...
To me, that seems...
tricky, no? It will be tricky.
Yes, but that's the only time I have.
Afterwards...
Is it something you want to do?
100%.
I think we need to check in
with the club's head of security.
We need to talk to him
and find out...
what the risks are if you go there.
We have to be sure it's safe.
I mean, it's not safe, but we need
to organize things carefully.
- Yeah.
- Because for the club...
It will be the first time in 22 years
that I've been back to Afghanistan.
But I want to go back
to try and find something
that belonged to my father.
Have you spoken to anyone over there
to see how it might work?
My mother knows someone
who still lives in Afghanistan.
But I've never spoken with them.
Do other members of your family
go there often?
- No.
- No?
Only my mother has been back.
Twice since we left.
And did she have any problems
over there, or was it fine?
No. Honestly, it wasn't fine.
So when I told my mother
that I was going to Afghanistan
she wasn't very happy about it.
But she understands
it's something I want to do.
That's all there is to it.
We'll just have to see how it goes.
You know, I think, it's obviously,
it was a mixed...
I was really upset that, obviously,
I've missed, lost my dad.
I think the most...
the thing that made me upset
was seeing my mom so being, so upset
and... but for me, also,
it was weird because
I feel like almost for six,
seven years
I didn't believe my dad was dead.
I always thought that
he's gonna show up one day
and I felt almost like,
sometimes I used to see him
you know, I'd be like,
"Oh, did you see this guy?"
He was looking like my dad, you know?
So I always, always felt
that he... I... I saw him.
And, you know, at the beginning,
that was what I felt.
Later on, I felt like,
maybe I'm not gonna see him again.
Maybe he has found another family,
like, you know, maybe he has left us.
That was, you know, my next thing.
And then, you know, like again,
this feeling of him showing up
or me seeing him places,
I used to see him a lot of places
which was fucking weird.
Like, I'll be like, I'm 100% sure.
I just saw my dad there.
You know, like, I felt like,
the time I understood
why I was... what was happening
it was like
when I was writing my book
and someone told me
this is your way of...
they say when you're sorrow
or your like, grief, you know
you... think you're seeing people.
Mom!
- Oh, my God.
- (Foreign language)
(Foreign language)
How are you?
Mommy!
Mommy!
Lots of homeless people here.
- Really?
- Lots of young people.
There are a lot of young people
from Africa.
I think there are many Afghans too.
When refugees come here,
nobody takes care of them.
Yeah, nobody does.
No one gives them money,
no one gives them an education
no one sends them to a refugee camp.
So they walk down the streets
until they reach other countries.
- Yes. They walk down the streets.
- How do they cope in winter?
They make a fire.
They probably can't work here.
No, they can't.
- Is he drunk?
- He's high.
Yes, it's a shame.
You walk too fast,
you've left me behind.
Hello, how are you?
Mom. Where are you going?
I don't know.
Yeah, he always did.
You've got to be quick!
It's a short distance!
That's it,
give it everything you've got!
She told me
she's going to Afghanistan.
She told me she was going
in December. I'm okay with that.
Yes, she'll be there
for three or four days.
Bad timing indeed, but she
has a ten-day holiday in December
otherwise she won't have time.
You weren't cold.
It's getting even colder.
I thought you froze.
No, it just started getting cold.
No, stop.
No!
Are you hungry?
I am.
Nice.
- See you tomorrow.
- Yes.
- Have a good night.
- Good night.
Ciao.
What does a demain mean?
See you tomorrow.
Okay. A demain.
A demain?
- A demain.
- A demain.
I don't think it's a good idea
to come with me.
You know nothing.
I don't want you to come.
It's dangerous.
Listen, you don't even
remember anyone.
Will you try to find your cousins
and call them?
I will find them.
But, first, I will look for Jamshid
and I will ask for his number.
That's the...
other cousin, right?
If you ever go to Kabul,
who will guarantee your safety?
If we don't, who will?
The French Embassy?
'Cause they'll go
through the Embassy.
Let's cross that bridge
when we come to it.
Because Naqeeb told me
"If she wants an armed bodyguard
or something like that
for her safety, I'll find one."
Oh, wow, that's a nice picture.
Yeah.
(Foreign language)
Am I blind?
Shit! It's big, right?
The crazy loss in Islamic countries
or Afghanistan, at least
is that if your husband dies
your son is gonna inherit it.
So if you don't have the son,
it's gonna be the brother.
So suddenly, one thing is, you have
all these crazy people outside
running and destroying everything.
But on the other hand,
you also had people
from your own family, my uncles,
suddenly wanting to be
you know, marrying my mom,
you know, wanting to inherit it.
Properties, cars, money, everything.
'Cause my dad, as a general,
you make a decent living.
My mom was working hard as well,
you know.
And then you have invested in
apartments, like, houses and stuff.
So, you know, suddenly,
there is no way safe for you.
So she had to sell the houses
and like, make them in her name.
So she sold our, you know, properties
for no money.
Sold her gold, like, jewelries
and everything she had
and try to be really low profile
so she didn't get discovered.
And, yeah, one day,
middle of the night
we were like,
"No one's gonna pack anything."
I think we had like a sports bag
or something
like with a bit of clothes
important papers,
the money that my mom had gathered.
And it happened that way.
As long as there wasn't war,
you know, rockets and anything.
Yeah. You're given a second chance,
I guess.
Do you have cumin?
- What?
- Cumin?
No cumin, but I have turmeric.
- You want some?
- No.
Mom, this is how I usually do it.
I'd like to add some ingredients.
No, no, thank you.
So how do you seal the pot?
- This first?
- Yes.
There is not enough water.
- Are you sure?
- Yeah, I'm sure.
Okay, cool.
They buried the medals.
They're made of metal, aren't they?
They won't deteriorate.
I will go
if I find the address
to the house, the garden, wherever
I'll bring a metal detector.
I hope they're right
about the medals.
If they buried them,
we'll find them easily.
Exactly.
I think they sold their house.
But if we look for them in the garden
and if no one took them out
I'll find them, I give you my word.
(Foreign language)
(Foreign language)
(Foreign language)
(Foreign language)
Nadia!
- Nadia! Nadia!
- Nadia! Nadia!
- She took the shot!
- She took the shot!
- She scored!
- She scored!
Viva!
Viva!
- She did it!
- She did it!
- Stop!
- Stop!
- This is...
- Paris!
- This is...
- Paris!
- This is...
- Paris!
Open the door.
- What's up?
- Tony, how are you?
- I'm good, and you? Welcome.
- Good...
Get you, get the rest a bit?
Yeah. How was training?
- Yeah. Good.
- Can you imagine the last page
when they open it,
and they're standing with the trophy?
How sick would that be?
- Yes. Yes.
- Really...
I'm an angel.
And I'm a devil.
Hey, what kind of devil?
You ain't no devil.
You want to be the devil.
What do you think?
My retirement plan.
This is like a good idea.
- Or you want me to
- I mean...
continue your morals. So...
You need to, you need...
this is something you need to feel
for yourself.
And as you say, all the things
that you've been saying, like family.
Friends back home.
All the things you wanna do.
I think that's the most important.
And I think that's, you know,
sums it up like, okay
you, you made peace with retirement.
- The house was sold.
- Okay.
You know the situation
in Afghanistan.
The house does exist,
but we sold it already.
Okay.
And you said that they built
a building over there?
Yes, a huge building was built there.
It was only us before.
Now, there are thirty to forty
families living over there.
Okay.
Do you think
that the garden still exists
or was something built over it?
Sorry, I didn't get
the word "garden".
I am sorry. It's been a long time.
I think I'm losing my Farsi.
The garden is the outdoor place
where there are trees and things.
It's in front of the house...
No, everything has changed.
Everything is different,
it's a new environment.
Okay.
...is the word.
The garden of the house.
Everything's changed. There was
a little square that still exists.
Since you left, you have never been
back to Afghanistan.
I only see pictures of you
on Facebook.
I don't remember your childhood.
We were too young when you left.
That's right. It would be fantastic
if I could come back.
I'd love to be able...
to return to Afghanistan.
Inshallah.
Okay. Have a nice day, goodbye.
Goodbye.
Say hello to your family for me.
Today, the targets of the Taliban's
and the Islamic States
is to focus on the VIP.
This is a reason why,
during all your trip to Afghanistan
we have to take all the measures
to be very low profile.
- Of course.
- Okay. Of course.
We will put on the field
on the ground all the measure
for the escort
- Yeah.
- for your protections.
But all the convoys
will have to be very discreet
- Yeah. Yeah.
- very low profiles.
So except your arrival and your...
- your...
- Departure.
Your departure.
- And the place in the Serena Hotel.
- Yeah.
Because we decided to,
to go inside the hotel.
If it's confirmed doing this,
why all the convoys
and the transfer from one point
to another point
- has to be very low profile.
- Okay.
And we will put on the field
all this kind of measure
to have all the information
before the deployment.
- Yeah.
- That means when we will go
from one point to another point
everything will be secure.
About the clothes.
You are Afghan.
And you will have
to be dressed as an Afghan.
Yeah, not really a fan of that
- because I am Afghan.
- No.
But I've never been fan
of this mug, but, yeah.
Yes, but you have on
a little put your
- passion out just on your hair...
- Yeah... I know, yeah.
not on your face and so on.
I bought myself a black one.
Black, simple, completely black.
Okay. It's nice.
And I bought the thinnest one too.
In Afghanistan,
they wear scarves like this
or make it fall behind like that.
On TV, they wear it like this.
I don't want to wear a hijab.
But you can wear
a jacket with some trousers
and a scarf around your head.
We have the same style in Kabul.
What happens
if you don't wear a scarf?
It's the law in Islamic countries,
you must wear a scarf.
Everyone will stare at you.
You have to wear it.
I don't want to wear a scarf.
You have to.
But for my own sake,
to avoid people staring at me
and so I can feel safe,
I will wear it.
Arkema Cup Day 16
I told them
there was no room for error.
That they may well be remembered
as the first team
to take the title away from Lyon,
after 14 years of consecutive wins.
Fourteen consecutive titles.
And five in the Champions League.
We don't need to win,
but we can't lose.
(Foreign language)
(Foreign language)
You know what?
There's just one left. Just one!
- Hey!
- Hey!
(Foreign language)
(Foreign language)
What just happened?
Lyon just weren't ready for us
(Foreign language)
What just happened?
Lyon just weren't ready for us
- This is...
- Paris!
- This is...
- Paris!
- This is...
- Paris!
I remember this really clearly
because we were sleeping like
in different areas
and... middle of the night,
like you felt that the...
the earth, like, was shaking.
The windows was like...
like smashed, like...
Like, I woke up because of,
you know, the... shock of it.
Like, as if someone just, like,
shook you
and everything is, like,
shaking and the light.
It was like this huge bright light.
And... my mom ran into the room,
like, you know, like...
Screaming, "Get up!"
Everyone's just like crawling
over the wall and you're hearing like
they're like the sounds of the rocket
because they weren't hitting one.
They used to come in periods,
like, you know?
Like you could hear it, like, coming
and it already hit one
and everyone's like,
shock and adrenaline's running
and we climbed over, running.
And went to the basement
and waited there
until everything like, quiet down.
No one's saying anything.
Everyone is like, you know,
when adrenaline is really running
you're shaking, you know,
and you're like, awake.
So waited there, wait there,
until it was, it was silence again
for a couple of hours.
Went back early in the morning.
And I remember that the entire garden
was full with dead birds.
There were so many, like...
I'm telling you,
like, probably four or 500 birds.
So happy you can come.
- Thank you so much.
- I heard so much good about you.
No. Come on, come on.
National team player, Dr. Dale.
Really honored, thank you.
- Thank you for your time.
- You know, we are waiting for you.
You will become also a doctor,
a surgeon, I hope.
- One day.
- Very soon, yeah?
Yeah. That's the goal, obviously.
And we built the first ever
cardiac surgery center
for children...
in Afghanistan.
And since then
I'm working there as a head
of the cardiac surgery.
That's pretty cool. One day.
One day when I'm done
I'll love to come and, like,
get some experience, you know.
- Promise.
- Deal.
Before I lost Dad
I remember we used to play.
When he died
we were not allowed
to go out anymore.
My mother stayed low profile.
We kept moving.
Sometimes we lived here,
sometimes there.
Yeah, during the war,
it was really difficult
like 4,000 rockets a day.
Then, when the Taliban were there,
we played football
because it was the only hobby
that everybody had in common.
- Sports, huh?
- Sports, football.
But you had to keep a low profile.
Yeah, we had to cover ourselves
to play.
The games were crowded.
- Yeah, 20,000 people.
- 20,000?
Yeah, so many
that when there was a tie
and a penalty shoot-out
people would go onto the pitch.
We had to ask them
to leave us some space.
It was crowded.
People would place bets.
Weren't you scared
something might happen?
No, it was not that dangerous.
There was this one time...
I saw this video
that occurred on a national pitch,
I think, where people were...
executed.
- Sadly, that happened a few time.
- A few?
Yes, we had a game once,
we were warming up
when a Taliban pick-up truck
showed up.
A woman is being executed.
She is accused of killing
her husband with a hammer.
She has seven children
and they are present here today.
- Salaam.
- This is Nadia.
Good morning, I am David Martinon,
the French Ambassador.
Welcome! I am Nadia.
Every day, they kill someone.
They want to create a climate
of fear.
They want to keep
on pressuring everyone.
So, so everyone's scared
and, you know...
- Listen or obey.
- Yeah.
Because of fear.
Control the masses with fear.
Right.
- What? That's so...
- Yeah.
- Yeah, crazy.
- Crazy world, huh?
That's sad.
Didn't tell you what he did
for the little girl that was shot
at the dusty, busty maternity?
- No.
- So...
Oh, is that recently, yeah?
- Yeah.
- Yeah...
- Three months ago.
- Yeah...
So there was...
- horrible terrorist attack
- Yeah, I saw that.
in Kabul, in the,
in the Hazara district of Kabul.
- In a maternity.
- Yeah.
It was launched by Daesh, by the ISKP
the Islamic State in, in Khorasan.
And they mostly target...
She has women, etcetera.
And what they did on that day
was that they killed women
who were delivering babies
or who just had delivered babies
and even kids were shot.
And this little girl, I mean,
she was 40...
40 minutes old
when the attack started.
- Forty.
- Forty.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- And she was shot in the leg.
Oh, my God.
By a bullet of an AK 47.
And her mother died.
Her grandmother died.
And she was sent to FMIC,
to the French medical hospital.
And he saved her leg.
Yeah, I don't want to sadden you
- but the situation
- No, it's the reality.
- is really bad right now.
- Yeah.
The situation is, has been bad
for a long time, but...
You know,
it's been three years that...
Afghanistan is now
on top of the list of the countries
that are impacted by terrorism.
- Crazy.
- That's almost...
Fifty percent of every victim
of terrorism in the world is Afghan.
So you know this blue?
- Yeah.
- What does it mean?
Oh, my God. That's so cool.
I love it. I'm going to be
wearing this everywhere.
I'll be like...
So we both, we want to
- to give you this.
- Oh, my God. Thank you so much.
- It's beautiful.
- I really appreciate this.
Thank you. Oh, I love it.
Thanks. That's so cool.
Well, I'm going to wear it
in my first day in there.
Thank you.
I felt like after 21 years,
I would love to go to see
just to remember,
like the memories of...
Are they still the same thing
that I remembered?
And also because, you know,
this is the country I was born in.
And, you know, it's my...
my mom, my dad
everyone is from there.
You know, my... I lost my dad.
But I also want to go, kinda connect
with him somehow, you know.
I want to go back to see
and I know you're telling
all the stories,
you know, that it's dangerous
and there's like attack every day,
you know?
And I think if also they would know
who, like, someone like me
is coming to the country
I think also maybe I'll be a target
just because what I stand for
in terms of that women
should be allowed
- to do whatever about...
- There is no doubt about that.
- I'm sorry. But there is no doubt.
- Yeah.
You know,
like 'cause I think everything
that they stand for, I hate it.
I detest it.
You know, I think it's disgusting
and that you cannot, as a women
or, being treated like a human being,
you know.
So for me, knowing that
but still have this desire
to want to go.
You're in Afghanistan right now,
near Kabul.
I am in Afghanistan.
- Kabul.
- How's that?
Being a prisoner, like always.
First of all,
the security briefing was sick.
We met with this guy
who makes sure, like
the people of NATO are
safe, you know
and things like, yeah,
you have to wear this armed vest
you know, bulletproof vest.
I don't know
if you're wearing those stuff
you're going to be
in armed vehicles, you know
and we have to train
if there's someone
who attached a bomb to your car
you have seven seconds
to jump out of the car.
Some way, I was like,
"Damn, that's scary."
On the other hand, I was like,
"Oh, James Bond movie."
You know? How... I wanna do this?
Oh, you have a gun.
Hey, don't, please.
Even, you are pointing at me.
I'm like, in the camera.
Don't shoot me.
Don't... don't worry,
I'm not gonna shoot.
- That's a gun.
- This is for our protection.
We have to keep this in the room
for bomb blasts today.
Today only. Imagine.
Yeah, it's four places.
That's crazy, you know?
I mean, even I do not recommend you
to come right now
because the situation
is really not good.
Bomb blasts, suicide bombers.
These things are happening every day.
And so many people are dying.
You know, they don't even talk
about it on TV.
You don't hear it on the news.
Most of it, they just hide.
But situation is really,
really bad right now.
And this other thing that,
that you just mentioned, you know
- they stick bombs into the cars.
- Yeah...
That's also some...
it has become so common
so common that it's like out
of control. It's crazy.
So it's really bad right now.
I wouldn't want you to come.
You know, for me, it's like,
as I said, I'm a prisoner right now.
It's been two months.
I'm not even allowed to,
like, cross the road here.
I have to stay inside all the time.
And obviously,
when you come to Afghanistan
you would want to go around.
That's the reason I want to come
to see some of the stuff.
You know, you wouldn't be able
to do all that
because it's really dangerous.
But, you know, for me,
it's different.
I come here
to give people hope, right?
I'm here to do the show
and then I just stay in my room.
But for you, you know, if you come,
at least they should spend a few days
- and come while...
- To see some of the stuff.
- the situation's better.
- Yeah.
You know, it's a bit safe right now.
Really.
It's, it's not good.
I would tell you the same thing.
I love you. I miss you.
And I'm definitely going to come
this summer and see you in Istanbul.
If you're not coming to Denmark.
Yes, come to Istanbul.
Don't come to Afghanistan, please.
Not right now.
Okay.
I already told you
that I know the current situation
in Afghanistan better.
And it's the worst situation
ever at the moment.
People are killed every day.
May God wipe out
those who are the cause of this all.
- Hi!
- Hi!
And do this with your arms.
Look over there. It's our pose.
The one where you are
too cool for photos.
We'll go there in summer.
I think in May, my season ends.
Will you come home
when your contract ends?
- Then you'll come to Denmark?
- (Foreign language)
My PSG contract ends this summer.
- Then you'll come to Denmark?
- I don't know.
That will be enough.
- Enough?
- Yeah.
I would like to go to the USA
Spain, England, Germany...
No, that's enough.
I want to be done with my semester.
Finish your last semester
and go find a job in a hospital.
Why? Maybe there are other things
I want to do.
Well, it's where doctors work.
(Foreign language)
You studied for
11 semesters for what?
Fun?
Yeah.
You have to serve the people,
they need it.
If only we could help
our poor people.
Do you remember
when this house was built?
Fine, thanks. I am in Denmark now.
Mom would like to talk to you,
like I told you.
- Good morning.
- How are you?
Fine, thanks, and you?
I am Hamida, glad to meet you.
I heard a lot about you,
it's an honor.
- So you are not coming to Kabul?
- No, I'm not.
The French Ambassador, the security
and the insurance company
told me it's impossible right now.
Oh, my god, he's so small.
- He had an operation yesterday.
- Yesterday.
Heart surgery?
Nadia, when you come
you'll work with us
either in this room or that one.
She promised us that
when she is done with football
she will come to Kabul
and work with us.
Of course, why not?
At any rate,
she won't play football anymore.
She has to work on her future.
Before your call,
I told her I really wanted to see her
help our poor people someday.
Love you. I love you.
Give me love. Love. Give me love.
She wants love!
I have turned into a cat.
Hush. Sit up straight.
Mom, I missed you.
Mommy!
Hey, Nadia!
Muskan!
Hey!
There you are.
Hello, love.
What's up?
I took a walk with Mom.
The boat rocked and Muskan said true
Nadia, I do love you
What shall we build
And where shall we hide?
I also find it kind of strange.
How can we be so different?
How is it possible? Why?
There are five of us,
all so different. Why is that?
With everything from...
motivation and how we do stuff
to looks and how we react.
How feminine one is
and how tomboyish another is...
It's crazy. I don't get it.
(Foreign language)
Hey!
(Foreign language)
I think one thing that is
in common for all of us is like
you know, I mean,
having a strong character
all of us, you know.
It might be that we are...
It looks different the way we dress
you know, like express
our like, feminine side
or masculine side, is so different.
If you don't look as close,
you wouldn't think we're sisters.
And I think for the three of us,
the oldest one is something
that we got from my dad.
And I think this has like spread out
to... the youngest also like, I think
this tomboyish thing.
Getti, is super tomboy,
you know like super, super.
And Diana is also... I would say,
I'm like... I'm super balanced.
I feel like I can be super feminine
when I have to be dressy, girly,
all that.
But I can also be like a super
macho tomboy when it has to be.
But I think the reason
is because, yeah
once we... we were raised
without Dad.
Secondly, we had a dad
who actually wanted boys, you know.
That was like, everyone wants boys
in Afghanistan because our first...
they continue your name,
like, you know
your name is gonna go
to the next generation
with the son, not the daughter.
So your bloodline is keeps going.
And secondly, the inheritance part
like, you inherit everything
with a boy.
So everyone is like, you know,
the old kingdoms.
You wanna have a son to have a king.
And I think for us, you know,
having like...
having five daughters
and my dad kind of raise us
like boys, you know.
I think it had more impact on certain
than others.
Something that feels like,
you know, I'll never forget.
And I think that's the mindset
that he kind of push in us.
Getti had a fight with, like, a boy
a bit older than her
and she had...
he had, like, beaten her up
so when she came up
and was super crying
like, really upset.
Like, and then my dad
got super pissed.
I was like, "What?
Someone beat you up. Come here."
And she was, he was about to,
like, lose his shit, you know?
And everyone, we knew like
when to say something or not to say.
I was always in shock looking,
"What's gonna happen."
He took off his belt
and he was like...
Take this in your hand.
I'll show you
how you can get him down
even though he's bigger than you.
You're gonna go grab it
around his head
and then you push him down.
And then if anything is...
if anyone is gonna
you know, get involved
they're going to deal with me."
He took out his... we had,
we had a lot of guns in the house.
He took out, he's, like,
one of them, almost like a sniper.
He went to the balcony.
He was like, "You go, I got your back
and you better fucking do
as I told you."
Getti went down and
we were all watching, you know
from the upstairs.
What's gonna happen, you know?
My mom was like,
"What are you doing? They are kids.
Come on, come down."
She's like,
"No... this is not about that."
She went down and this guy was like,
almost, like, half laughing.
And she was, like,
crying because she had her belt
in the back and she did it.
Then she came back
and my dad was proud of it.
(Foreign language)
All they have got,
the more I understand how
like, how certain people
don't see me as a date.
Like, how certain group of people
would never accept
that I have a different skin color.
Like, you know.
So then I was like,
how, am I going to feel differently
if I'm in Afghanistan
or am I gonna be feeling
the same way?
So it was like, partially also, this,
like, this thing that I wanted to
like, this feeling
I wanna experience.
Is it gonna feel differently there
or I'm still going to be an outsider?
Anyways,
one day I have to, just to see.
Just to feel the feeling.
So different or it's like,
"Oh, it's the same."
Fuck's sake, Nadia. Why?
You never know.
The sun. I love the sun.
It makes me happy.
Tan me more.
The reason we usually work
with children and families
in France and in Europe
is because the families
we see these days
may have kids that are
as young as you were
when you fled Afghanistan.
We help them.
Even if they made something
for a living back in Afghanistan
and had a normal life
their parents were forced
to leave Afghanistan
because of the war
and security issues
even if they had a job there,
they don't now.
In the beginning
it was really difficult for them.
They lived in tents for a whole month
in Aubervilliers.
One night, the police came
and took them from their tents
- and told them to go somewhere else.
- Yes.
They said they couldn't leave,
so the police hit and pushed them.
I was in a park.
Police made us leave
telling us they would take us
to a camp.
But it was just an excuse
to make us move.
They took us away...
This is France
and the French authorities claim
they have human rights protection
in place.
These are the daughters of the woman
that we are going to meet.
Police shot tear gas at them.
You went to Sweden from Afghanistan?
Yes, we went to Sweden.
Where in Sweden?
Next to Vasteras, in a small village.
Okay.
A village called Norberg.
Were you in a camp
or were you in a house?
In a house. We had accommodation.
The kids went to school,
but my husband and I stayed at home.
There were no classes for us
because we did not have any status.
We suffered a lot
because my oldest daughter
could not go to high school
and continue her studies
because she also lacked any status.
She wanted to continue
with her plans for the future
- so we had to go somewhere else.
- Okay.
Somewhere where our children...
can finish their studies
and achieve their goals.
We have been waiting for so long
but we have not received
any status from Sweden.
Okay.
The kids have just started
to learn French here.
Yeah.
My son goes to school
and my daughters have applied.
They spoke good enough Swedish.
Our two-year-old didn't speak
a word of Farsi, but knew Swedish.
But here, we have to start over.
All of them have
their own dreams and goals.
Yeah.
Through Nimruz province
we got to Iran.
- It took us eight days.
- Okay.
Then, we stayed a month in Iran.
We crossed the mountains
on foot to Turkey.
We were starving and thirsty
after four days
without eating or drinking.
We were on the seashore,
the sea leading to Greece.
(Foreign language)
We reached Greece
and other countries.
I don't remember which ones anymore.
All that way on foot?
Sometimes on foot, sometimes by car.
We walked to reach Turkey,
then we took a boat.
It was a small one,
it measured around 10 meters
but there were 50 people on board
or possibly even more.
We had a lot of problems.
We still do.
I think this is my style, no?
We were ready to lose our life.
- But to be...
- Take your chances, yeah.
Because there you have,
you have no chance to be alive.
So you have to get something.
- Certain death or maybe...
- Exactly.
You're gonna see what future brings
- yeah?
- Exactly.
So my mom ran with me.
I had, like, a bag.
My old sister had the little kid.
Like, my sister got in.
We thought we were going to be
in England, you know
for, I don't know, 50,
50 something plus hours.
Everyone hiding. It was only us.
No one else behind the truck.
And then you stop that.
But you're like, yeah.
We made it in England, you know.
It was like, yeah, get out.
You got out.
Everyone, like, I still believe like,
you know what?
In my brain, it was like 5.00am
in the morning
and, you know, it's a bit dark
in Denmark.
It was east... Eastern morning,
so it's like a holiday.
And, yeah, I was like, Big Ben.
No, it's not here.
London, right? It's not here.
But my mom finds a guy
who was walking his dog
and she was like, where were we?
And this girl was like, yeah, Aganas.
I'm like, where in England is that?
It's not England,
it's Denmark. Yeah.
So from there, you know,
you go to the asylum
put police asylum, refugee camp
and it just like took off.
And I was, again, we were grateful,
even though it wasn't England
we're grateful that
we were together and safe
and having gotten
second chance, you know.
If you had the message
to send to your mom today.
What would you say to your mom?
I love my mom.
I'll take a bullet for her because...
I think our twenties,
you know, easily got married.
And she's a gorgeous lady.
She sacrificed everything for us.
And I just say that I'm grateful,
you know, what she's done now.
We never forget it.
And I'm always gonna
take care of her.
So, yeah.
And... yeah, she, I think she was...
She made us the way we are.
(Foreign language)
And now, I'm gonna eat.
My God.
You made me cry, you made me cry.
That's the... that's the main goal.
I wanna touch each other's hearts.
Yeah, I guess so. Goodbye.
You're making us cry also.
Yeah.
Yeah. It's the way it is.
It could be worse. I could be ugly.
No. Don't worry about it.
Yeah.
Yeah, definitely think one
of the reason
I wanted to go back to Afghanistan
was because of me, you know,
trying to find closure
because I am the daughter
of my father.
You know, like I am her,
his... genes are in me.
Like, you know, I think...
It's not that it has stopped my life.
It hasn't, in no way it has.
It's not because
it makes me not sleep...
because I sleep really well.
But it just will be nice
to, like, you know...
to, like, say properly goodbye.
But it is what it is. Could be worse.
You remember what happened last time
we played basketball?
Yeah. I whupped your ass.
You didn't do shit.
You wanna do that thing.
Air ball! I'm going.
I got you in. I took you out.
And I really hope that
the trip happens one day, you know
- when it gets a bit safer.
- Yeah, it has to.
And I really...
I don't know, yeah,
I really wanna go.
So, you know, after football
you will have
a totally different schedule.
You can run your life in another
- way than you do now.
- I'm don't think I'm gonna have
more time, honestly.
I think is going to have less time.
No, but you can plan your time.
- With all the, oh, yeah...
- You can plan it.
Because it's my...
it's gonna be my schedule.
Exactly. You can plan it better.
So, I mean, now you're bound
by the schedule of your club
and by the national team.
After football, you can...
You can make your own schedule.
- Yeah.
- Basically.
And it's gonna give you time
when it's more secure to go.
You're right.
- Yeah.
- Okay. We do it.
- Do it...
- Let's go.
No. Good job. Good job, Tony.
- Let's go, man.
- Let's go.
- Before it gets too dark.
- Here. Come on.
Hit it.
Hit it.
No, that's, that's the...
(Foreign language)
(Foreign language)
- This is...
- Paris!
Around nine when I came to Denmark.
Refugee camp.
That's where we started.
I think it's kind of fate.
So for me, the field
was just beside the camp.
From nine to one. We were in school
trying to learn Danish
and then from one to midnight
we were outside.
When we discovered that,
beside the camp
those like these amazing
football fields
with the fields to go,
everything's just perfect.
Just the only thing
that was dividing the camp
and the fields was like a fence.
After school we used to go
and watch it from behind the fences
watch other kids play.
First time I saw a girls team
play football and I was like...
You know, when you
kind of feel the moment.
I think that was the...
the spark, you know,
like, a month or two later
I went and asked the coach.
We didn't speak the language.
We just...
I just wanted to be a part
of whatever they were doing.
And he knew what we wanted.
And he was like, "Yeah, come, come."
And from then on,
it was just obsession.
My life has been so crazy.
I've experienced so much.
It feels like, you know,
seven or eight lifetimes already
and I'm only 33 years old.
But it's... I don't know.
I kind of like it, you know
I haven't had a boring life.
It's been a... it's been...
it's been like a bit drama,
a bit action
a bit romance here and there.
It's been a sick movie.
I'm not gonna lie.
So, yeah, it's crazy.
I can't believe it.
I don't even believe it
sometimes myself.
I'm like, damn, man.
Is the rest, the next 30 is all gonna
be that intense also?
I hope not that intense.
I hope intense,
but not that intense, bro.
That's just too much.
I'm like, why me?
Why? Why? Por que?
My God!
I'm like, "Bro, I had enough.
Come on, man, give me a break.
I know you like me,
but this is a bit too much."
Nadia currently plays in the US
before becoming
a reconstructive surgeon.
The Taliban have regained power
in Afghanistan
plunging the country
into chaos and terror.
Dr. Najeebullah Bina
was forced to flee Kabul
after his life was threatened.
Nadia hasn't lost hope of one day
returning to Afghanistan
to find her father's medals.
Danish Asylum Seeker ID Card,
22.04.2000
Translator: IYUNO