Five years of selfies taken by an Afghan girl became A Fox Under a Pink Moon.

I turned fear into a demonic sculpture.%In the documentary A Fox Under a Pink Moon, young Afghan artist Soraya Akhlaghi uses paintings and sculptures to describe her situation.Kino Lorber has released a new US trailer and will release this work in some US theaters starting on December 2.

Soraya in the camera is only 16 years old, but she has spent five years trying to leave Iran and reunite with her mother in Austria.Trapped in a marriage with an abusive husband, her daily life is filled with isolation and violence.She used her mobile phone to record her attempts to escape, and also handed over her worries, joy and fear to the brushes and sculpture materials in her hands.

These cellphone images, as well as years of video calls with her co-director Mehrdad Oskouei, formed the basis for the film.Soraya also co-directs, marking the first time the two have made a film together, and Oskoui also serves as producer.His previous works include Starless Dreams and Sunless Shadows.

Several companions appear repeatedly in Soraya's works: a clown who never smiles, a pink moon that always watches over her, and a fox who accompanies her on the road.Those beautiful and dark images appear on the screen together with her real-life escape experience.

The film premiered at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) in 2025 and won the Best International Documentary Award. It was screened at film festivals such as Full Frame, Hot Docs and DOC NYC in 2026. It has won more than thirty awards at film festivals around the world.

FirstShowing author Alex Billington mentioned it alongside another escape-themed documentary, Rehearsals for a Revolution, and believed that both films recorded the characters' experiences of survival and perseverance.

《Fox under the Pink Moon》also intersperses political news in Afghanistan, retaining the scenes of Soraya singing and dancing that she filmed herself, as well as the moment when she showed her bruises to the camera.