Apple Original Films has just dropped the trailer for Bread & Roses, a documentary feature — directed by Sahra Mani and produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Malala Yousafzai — about the plight of women in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the 2021 withdrawal from the country of the United States and fall of Kabul to the Taliban.

The film, which Lawrence and her Excellent Cadaver producing partner Justine Ciarrocchi initiated and hired Afghan filmmaker Mani (A Thousand Girls Like Me) to direct, follows three courageous Afghani women as they resist efforts to rob them of the autonomy they had acquired in recent decades.

Yousafzai, the Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize-winning champion of girls education, signed on as an executive producer to further highlight the film’s urgent message, joined by the Iranian composer Farhad Khosravi.

Bread & Roses had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it garnered strong reviews (it is...