Nelofer Pazira

Nelofer Pazira is an AfghanCanadian filmmaker actress journalist and author born in 1973 in Hyderabad India She was raised in Kabul Afghanistan and lived through a decade of Soviet occupation before fleeing to Pakistan in 1989 and immigrating to Canada in 1990 She studied journalism and English literature at Carleton University and earned a masters degree in anthropology sociology and religion from Concordia University In 2001 she starred in the film Kandahar based on her reallife attempt to find a childhood friend She later codirected Return to Kandahar and authored the memoir A Bed of Red Flowers