Shagofta's challenge / Shagoftas prövning

Shagofta's challenge / Shagoftas prövning

In this documentary Zayera Khan, want to show how her mother Shagofta fights and struggles against her illness, a brain tumor.

Zayera followed and filmed her during ca 3 years and her experiences and changes during those years of recovery. Zayera want to show how a strong woman deals with her unexpected situation and challenges of adapting and making the best of the situation at hand. The film portrays a persons adaption to an illness, and how it changed her but also how any illness may affects us over time.

TITLE: Shagofta's challenge

Original Swedish title: Shagoftas prövning

COUNTRY: Sweden

YEAR: 2015

LENGTH: 17 minutes

LANGUAGE: Swedish

SUBTITLES: English

DIRECTOR: Zayera Khan

PRODUCER: Zayera Khan

EDITOR: Stina Lundkvist