Girls deserve right to education - A speech by Matthias Hüttenbach
Girls deserve right to education - A speech by Matthias Hüttenbach Good evening everyone, thank you Hassan Yusuf for inviting me. It is a pleasure to be part of this discussion. Before I start I want to say: My english is not perfect, so please bear with me. My name is Matthias Hüttenbach. I am a cameraman and film editor in Berlin. In November 2025, I took part in a discussion in Berlin about the Afghan film 'Rulebreakers'. I filmed the event, edited the material afterwards, and published the video on YouTube. And actually, it was my interest in Hassan Yusuf’s work that brought me there in the first place. So, Hassan, thank you also for that. I want to make one thing clear: I am not an expert on Afghanistan, and I do not want to pretend to be one. I am German. I have never lived in Afghanistan, and I have never been there. As a cameraman and editor, my job is to look and to listen. Later, when I edit a film, I have to decide which images and which voices b...