"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,

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,

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

“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.

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+