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‘Rule Breakers’ Review: STEM Power Meets Girl Power in Tale of a Female Robotics Team From Afghanistan

Based on actual events, director Bill Guttentag’s rousing 'Rule Breakers' is inspirational yet somehow it also feels oh-so-cautionary.

The streets of Herat, Afghanistan, are paved not with gold but with scrolling code in the spirited drama “ Rule Breakers.” Teacher and startup owner Roya Mahboob believes in the transformative possibilities of computers. Portrayed with a mix of stubbornness and smarts by Nikohl Boosheri, Roya is the kind of ponderer who sees images from computer screens and lines of iridescent code on the building walls and roadways of Herat. “The first time I touched a computer, it was like a light in the dark,” the young educator says, standing in front of a classroom of rapt high school girls in Herat Province.

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