“Sonita,” an inspiring film, captures the basic essence of a solid documentary, while also exposing the major problems of human rights in certain areas of the world such as Afghanistan and Iran. Filmed by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, I can easily relate to several events that occurred throughout the remarkable story of Sonita Alizadeh, the Afghan rapper starring in this film. Not only do I sing, for example, but similar to her, in my downtime, playing music helps cheer me up, whether it be messing around on the piano, playing the ukulele, or singing. Moreover, I can relate to her large amount of restrictions and inabilities to do things from laws with my parent’s heavily cultural background. They often share stories of their childhood in China,
