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

The brave story of Afghanistan’s first all-girls robotics workforce 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 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 provide the ladies journey paperwork on particular humanitarian grounds permitting them to enter the US and compete within the robotics video games, in line with a .

The story of the workforce’s wrestle 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 approach to spark curiosity in science and know-how amongst excessive schoolers. He invited and enlisted Afghan tech entrepreneur and founder Roya Mahboob to place collectively an all-girls robotics workforce for the competitors nicknamed the Afghan Dreamers. A dozen women made the lower forming the primary workforce and labored on their robotic creation in Mahboob’s mother and father’ basement utilizing no matter they may discover for instruments together with elements donated by Kamen, in line with the Instances.

The film tells the story of the workforce’s deep and threatening wrestle 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 among the workforce members to flee their nation for their very own security and the suitable to pursue their future on their phrases. Workforce member Sadaf Hamidi, who fled for Qatar in 2021, instructed final 12 months that one among 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.