Three Songs for Benazir (Pashto: دری سندری د بینظیر لپاره) is a 2021 Afghan-American documentary short film by Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei.
[1][2] The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced people in Kabul—struggles to balance his dreams of being the first from his tribe to join the Afghan National Army with the responsibilities of starting a family.
Even as Shaista’s love for Benazir is palpable, the choices he must make to build a life with her have shattering consequences.
In February 2022, Three Songs for Benazir won Outstanding Nonfiction Short at the Cinema Eye Honors.
In December 2021, it was announced that Netflix had acquired distribution rights to the film, and set it for a January 24, 2022, release.