‘Rule Breakers’ will deliver Afghanistan’s first-ever women’ robotics group to the large display screen on March 7

The brave story of Afghanistan’s first all-girls robotics group is coming to a theater close to you.

Rule Breakers relies on the true story of The Afghan Ladies Robotics Crew, who grabbed the world’s consideration once they have been in 2017 whereas trying to compete on the First World Problem worldwide robotics competitors. Fifty three members of Congress signed a petition and President Donald Trump intervened to present the ladies journey paperwork on particular humanitarian grounds permitting them to enter the US and compete within the robotics video games, based on a .

The story of the group’s battle to compete within the robotics competitors goes a lot deeper than their makes an attempt to enter the US. First World founder Dean Kamen, who’s greatest recognized for designing the Segway, put collectively his aggressive robotics league as a technique to spark curiosity in science and expertise amongst excessive schoolers. He invited and enlisted Afghan tech entrepreneur and founder Roya Mahboob to place collectively an all-girls robotics group for the competitors nicknamed the Afghan Dreamers. A dozen women made the reduce forming the primary group and labored on their robotic creation in Mahboob’s dad and mom’ basement utilizing no matter they may discover for instruments together with components donated by Kamen, based on the Occasions.

The film tells the story of the group’s deep and threatening battle to compete and pursue their passions. The Taliban’s return to energy in 2021 reversed years of gender equality and strife for freedom by forbidding girls from receiving an training in science and expertise, forcing among the group members to flee their nation for their very own security and the proper to pursue their future on their phrases. Crew member Sadaf Hamidi, who fled for Qatar in 2021, instructed final 12 months that one in all her sisters had to surrender her dream of going to medical college saying “That is heartbreaking for me and for them.”

Rule Breakers is directed by two-time Academy Award winner Invoice Guttentag and stars Nikohl Boosheri as Mahboob and Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The movie hits theaters on March 7, 2025.