The Girl and the Dragon

One day in the winter of 1989, in Mashhad, Iran, in a poor refugee family left Afghanistan to flee the Soviet army, the mujahideen and the persecutions that Afghan Sunnis inflict on Hazara Shiites, a small girl is born with her hands wide open, a sign of blessings for the household. She is the sixth in a family of ten. The mullah refuses to choose a child for her first name and write it in the family Quran. What's the point? It's a girl. Eventually named Kubra, which means "big," the child shows a very early gift for drawing. A gift like armor, which protects and strengthens her against the trials of an existence under the double rule of religious fanaticism and patriarchal. Armed with her pencils, her brushes and a will without fault, Kubra undertakes an incredible artistic odyssey. With a mission sacred: kill the dragon! A unique graphic and literary testimony on the invincibility of art, an ode to women, to life, to freedom.