The Nobel Peace Prize winner helped bring the film to life along with director Sahra Mani and producer Jennifer Lawrence.

"Bread & Roses" begins with a celebration. A beautiful, intimate moment of new beginnings between a newly engaged couple and their families. Then, chaos strikes. In the middle of the night, their world is turned upside down as gunfire blasts,

The actress and the Nobel Peace Prize winner have produced a documentary by Afghan director Sahra Mahni featuring testimonies from a half dozen women on how they are being stripped of their rights

“Bread & Roses,” which follows the lives of three Afghan women in the wake of the Taliban’s return to power, does not communicate these prohibitions in voice-over or title cards. Instead, the director, Sahra Mani, makes the deliberate choice to clear the way for her subjects to reach the audience directly, in their own words.

The new documentary is a harrowing but vital account of the lives of women living under oppressive Taliban rule.