Kandahar (2001)

This film is described as a "partially fictionalized documentary." I'm not sure which parts are fictionalized but I'm betting it's the actual story as opposed to the facts therein. Anyway, the film is about an female Afghani (living in Canada) journalist who makes the dangerous journey into Kandahar, Afghanistan in order to save her sister. Her sister was wounded by a landmine and remained in Afghanistan. Because of the oppression inflicted upon women is only getting worse, the sister has written to the journalist that she will kill herself at the next eclipse. Because of the culture and the fact that the journalist has escaped the country once before, she has a hard time getting into the country secretly. She finally finds a way but constantly runs into difficulties, the least of which are wearing the burga and having to be accompanied by a man at all times.

The film does offer an interesting and heartbreaking look into the plight of Afghani women. But I think it ends too abruptly to do the narrative any service. It's definitely worth watching if only to see the burgas up close and the scenes with the doctor in his office. But it is not well acted on the whole and I don't think it does quite enough in terms of its message.