on Sunday to promote their label’s first ever documentary feature, “Bread and Roses” — a harrowing and emotional look at the lives of women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule.
“The director was given footage from women using their cell phones, there was one trusted camera person that was used occasionally,” Lawrence said. Ciarrocchi recalled the high stress of protecting Mani and the subjects from retaliation. Lawrence and Ciarrocchi also observed an unsettling side effect from the footage of women living in lockdown — psychological damage from restrictions around leaving the house.