With Bread and Roses, Jennifer Lawrence hopes to shed light on the Taliban’s control in Afghanistan, where women and girls have been stripped of many rights. The Oscar winner, who produced the Sahra Mani-helmed documentary alongside EP Malala Yousafzai,

Produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Malala Yousafzai, 'Bread & Roses' may track the plight of women under Taliban regime, but it's resonant in the U.S.

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

The Oscar-winning actress also says she's had to battle trolls who claim she's "not educated" enough to talk about political matters, to which she responds, "It’s not political, it’s people's lives.”

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.

Bread & Roses' is a powerful, harrowing look at female activists standing up to the resurgence of Taliban rule in their home city of Kabul.

Bread and Roses', which largely features footage taken in Afghanistan after the Taliban retook control of the country in 2021, is now streaming on Apple TV+