Marie Michael Library

Title

Sonita

Length

91 min.

File No

920

Format

DVD

Description

Sonita Alizadeh is an 18-year-old Afghan refugee in Iran who thinks of Michael Jackson and Rihanna as her spiritual parents and dreams of becoming a rapper. Her fans are the other teenage girls in a Tehran shelter. Her family has a very different future planned for her - as a bride she's worth nine thousand dollars.