The bold story of Afghanistan's first women's robotics team is coming to a cinema near you.
Rule breakers based on the true story of the Afghan girls' robotics team that captured the world's attention when they were in 2017 while trying to take part in the international robotics competition First Global Challenge. Fifty-three members of Congress signed the petition, and President Donald Trump intervened to issue special humanitarian travel documents to the girls, allowing them to enter the U.S. and compete in robotics games, according to the report. .
The story of the team's struggle to compete in robotics goes much deeper than their efforts to make it to the United States. First Global founder Dean Kamen, best known as the creator of the Segway, started his competitive robotics league to spark interest in science and technology among high school students. He invited and recruited an Afghan technology entrepreneur and founder Roya Mahbub assembled an all-female robotics team called the Afghan Dreamers to compete. A dozen girls made up the first team and worked on their robotic creation in Mahbub's parents' basement, using whatever they could find as tools, as well as parts donated by Kamen, according to Time.
The film tells the story of a team's deep and dangerous struggle to compete and pursue their passion. The Taliban's return to power in 2021 has upended years of gender equality and freedom struggles, barring women from education in science and technology, forcing some members of the team to flee their country for their own safety and the right to build a future in freedom. their conditions. Team member Sadaf Hamidi, who fled to Qatar in 2021, spoke about this. Last year, one of her sisters had to give up her dream of going to medical school, saying, “It’s heartbreaking for me and for them.”
Rule breakers Directed by two-time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag and starring Nicol Boucherie as Mahbub and Fleabag Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The film will hit theaters on March 7, 2025.