Hillary Clinton-Backed Documentary ‘In Her Arms’ Unveils Trailer

“In Her Arms,” a Netflix documentary produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, has unveiled its first official trailer.

The movie — which received the viewers award on the 18th Camden Worldwide Movie Competition final month — is filmed over a two-year interval, and tells the story of Zarifa Ghafari, who at 26 grew to become certainly one of Afghanistan’s first feminine mayors and the youngest to ever maintain the place.

The movie paperwork her combat for survival in opposition to the backdrop of her nation’s accelerated unraveling as Western forces announce their retreat and the Taliban returns to energy. Amid these tectonic modifications, Zarifa should take advantage of tough resolution of her life.

“In Her Arms,” which is directed by Tamana Ayazi and Marcel Mettelsiefen (“Watani: My Homeland”), premiered in Toronto on Sept. 9.

The Clintons served as government producers on the movie, which marks the primary non-fiction effort for his or her London-headquartered HiddenLight Productions. Ben Silverman’s Propagate Content material are additionally co-producers on the movie.

“‘In Her Arms’ is a unprecedented work of private storytelling that gives us a uncommon glimpse and actual understanding of what ladies in Afghanistan have confronted lately. Once we first heard about this mission, we needed to be concerned,” stated the Clintons in an announcement.

“We consider women and girls — and males and boys — in all places can be impressed by the exhausting work, intelligence and pure dedication of Zarifa Ghafari, certainly one of Afghanistan’s first feminine mayors, the youngest ever to be appointed, and her ongoing combat for ladies’s rights immediately. Ms. Gharafi’s story deserves to be instructed and we couldn’t be extra proud and excited to assist share this movie with Netflix’s international viewers.”

The movie’s producers are Juan Camilo Cruz and Jonathan Schaerf. Govt producers embrace the Clintons, Ayazi, Mettelsiefen, Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, Isabel San Vargas, George Loening, Siobhan Sinnerton, Johnny Webb, Roma Khanna, Stephen Ellis, Rob Sharenow and Elaine Frontain Bryant.

Fashioned in 2020, HiddenLight has centered on creating premium documentary, and unscripted and scripted leisure for TV, movie and digital. The outfit was based by the Clintons together with Sam Branson. Its first mission was the YouTube Originals sequence “If I May Inform You Simply One Factor,” which aired in the summertime of 2021. Apple TV+ sequence “Gutsy Girls,” primarily based on the Clintons’ best-selling guide “The Ebook of Gutsy Girls: Favourite Tales of Braveness and Resilience,” launched earlier this fall.

“In Her Arms” premieres globally on Netflix on Nov. 16.

Watch the trailer beneath: