Living in a refugee camp where basic personal hygiene has become a luxury, Ghazaal, a resourceful teenager, is on a mission to survive the onset of her menstrual period.

With a humanistic lens, the film shines an intimate light into the tumultuous psyche of a spirited young person on the cusp of transformation. Pragmatist and resilient, Ghazaal is determined to navigate the impending adult world she’s entering, while her tender soul still longs for a childhood that dissipated too soon.

DIRECTOR

Ragini Bhasin is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her short film GHAZAAL that revolves around a 13-year-old Afghan refugee who experiences her period in a refugee camp, has played over 30 festivals worldwide, including Oscar-qualifying Tirana International Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and at Femme Filmmakers in the same line-up as Olivia Wilde and Lulu Wang. It is distributed by German ARTE channel in France, Germany, and Belgium. She is also the recipient of the Meredith Macrae Memorial Award funded by Women In Film. Currently, she is directing unscripted content for a media company called Jubilee Media while developing her first feature film.