“Resistance is sometimes just trying to live your own life,” says Noorzai. “This journey was sad, beautiful, difficult, inspiring and everything at the same time. I didn’t speak to a woman who doesn’t have or had it. Their stories stay with me forever.”
The series is inspired by the poems of her father, to which the episodes are also mentioned: Hope, Silent Revolution and Flame. Hila Beyond the Taliban can be seen on NPO 2 from Sunday 30 November 2025.