‘Rule Breakers’ will deliver Afghanistan’s first-ever ladies’ 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 Women Robotics Workforce, who grabbed the world’s consideration once they had been denied member visas by the United States in 2017 whereas trying to compete on the First International Problem worldwide robotics competitors. Fifty three members of Congress signed a petition and President Donald Trump intervened to provide the ladies journey paperwork on particular humanitarian grounds permitting them to enter the US and compete within the robotics video games, in response to a New York Times profile.

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 International founder Dean Kamen, who’s greatest recognized for designing the Segway, put collectively his aggressive robotics league as a option to spark curiosity in science and know-how amongst excessive schoolers. He invited and enlisted Afghan tech entrepreneur and Digital Citizen Fund (DCF) founder Roya Mahboob to place collectively an all-girls robotics group for the competitors nicknamed the Afghan Dreamers. A dozen ladies made the reduce forming the primary group and labored on their robotic creation in Mahboob’s dad and mom’ basement utilizing no matter they might discover for instruments together with components donated by Kamen, in response to the Occasions.

The film tells the story of the group’s deep and dangerous 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 know-how, forcing a number of the group members to flee their nation for their very own security and the fitting to pursue their future on their phrases. Workforce member Sadaf Hamidi, who fled for Qatar in 2021, advised NBC News final yr that certainly one of her sisters had to surrender her dream of going to medical faculty 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.