Director

Najiba Noori

NAJIBA NOORI (author, director) was born in 1995 in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. She began working for media organisations as a volunteer when she was just 15. She has participated in several workshops for photography and filmmaking in Kabul, Afghanistan. She has made reports and photo stories for various organisations and agencies, including the AFP, Huffington Post, MSF, FMIC, NRC and UN Women in Afghanistan. She participated at the Close-Up program 2020-2021 and at IDFA Academy 2022. She joined AFP as a video journalist in 2019. In 2021 she was obliged to leave her country when the Taliban took power in Afghanistan and lives in France. “Writing Hawa” is her first feature-length documentary.

Co-Director

Rasul Noori

RASUL NOORI was born in 1994 in Bamiyan, Afghanistan and graduated in journalism in Kabul. He has made several short videos for NRC, GIZ, and FMIC in Afghanistan. He was one of the cinematographers of the short film “Hoof” with the American Company Hungry Man in Bamiyan.

Producer

Christian Popp

Christian was born in Romania in 1971. After a Master Degree in History and Arts in France and Germany he has been between 1998 and 2005 a commissioning editor for ARTE. From 2005 to 2024 he worked as producer in Germany and France for interscience film, Docdays Productions, YUZU Productions and TAG Film. He has produced more than 40 documentaries. Beginning of 2025 Christian joined the French company YAMI 2 Productions. The films Christian produced have screened at Festival de Cannes, IDFA, Sundance, Berlinale, Venice and more. He was for more than 20 years consulting and mentoring at various documentary events (IDFAcademy, EAVE, Documentary Campus, Ex Oriente…). Beside his job as producer and expert, he was Head of Industry at FIPADOC for the 2020 and 2021 editions. Christian was a IDFA Jury member in 2017, a member of the ARTE-Jury of the Duisburger Filmwoche 2019-2021, of the documentary jury at TIFF Romania 2023 and of the Astra Film Festival in 2024.