You Will Be Free

Plot

Afghanistan, Spring 2002 — Following the fall of the taliban regime, the country faces extreme poverty. To feed his family, a father is forced to sell his 15-year-old daughter to a 65-year-old man. Refusing to accept this fate for her child, the mother, determined to give her a brighter future, arranges a marriage with a man living in Montreal. In return, she makes a solemn promise: the children born of this union will one day marry their cousins remaining in Afghanistan. Montreal, Spring 2020 — The pact resurfaces. Now well integrated into Quebec society, Zarmina refuses to let her 15-year-old daughter marry her cousin in Afghanistan. Her firm opposition triggers a tragic chain of events.

About You Will Be Free

You Will Be Free (French: Ma fille tu seras libre) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Bachir Bensaddek and released in 2026. The film stars Wazhma Bahar as Zarmina Latif, a woman returning to her native Afghanistan for the first time since moving to Montreal 15 years earlier to escape an unwanted arranged marriage, where she discovers that her family secured her safe passage to Canada by pledging her daughter Marwa (Saba Vahedyousefi) in another arranged marriage to the nephew of the man who helped her escape. The cast also includes Julie Le Breton, Firuz Ali Nazar, Arezoo Ariapoor, Saboor Sahak, Paeman Arianfar, Guillaume Cyr and Sophie Cadieux in supporting roles.

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