Docunight Perspectives: Afghanistan

Docunight Perspectives: Afghanistan

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Docunight Perspectives: Afghanistan
  • 7 Veils

    هفت پرده
    Directed by Sepideh Farsi • 2017 • Afghanistan/France
    Little is known about Afghanistan, apart from a few
    clichés, the word Taliban, and a war which seems never
    to have stopped since the Soviet Union and the turning
    point reached in 2001. With this film, Sepideh Farsi took up again the d...

  • A Journey Into Zero Space

    سفری به مکان صفر
    Directed by Dawood Hilmandi • 2017 • Afghanistan/Iran/Netherlands/USA
    ‘A Journey Into Zero Space’ is a triptych at the border between autobiographical fiction and experimental film essay, investigating and re-living archives of the past by reflecting on them and on current events...

  • A Youth

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    Directed by Giorgio Bosisio • 2020 • UK
    Peyman and his friends are a group of Afghan teenagers on the cusp of adulthood, who find themselves stuck in Athens, waiting for their asylum requests to be processed. Their hope is to reach mainland Europe and re-unite with their loved ones, but it c...

  • Harat

    هرات
    Directed by Sepideh Farsi • 2007 • Iran/France
    Starting from Paris, a little girl accompanies her mother - the filmmaker herself - to go to Iran, thus joining her grand-father and starting on a journey to Afghanistan, a country often dreamt of, but never visited since three generations, sinc...

  • Overruled

    اعتراض وارد نیست
    Directed by Farnaz Jourabchian, Mohammad Reza Jourabchian • 2016 • Iran/Canada
    Over one million Afghans live as refugees in neighbouring Iran. For Ismael, Golagha, Kashmir and Nader, the flawed Iranian asylum laws leave them in legal limbo and under constant threat of deportation...

  • Playing with Fire

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    Directed by Anneta Papathanassiou • 2014 • Greece
    In Afghanistan, women deciding to be actors make a dangerous choice. Banned under Taliban rule (1994-2001), Afghan theater is experiencing a comeback with many women at the forefront. But with powerful forces of Islamic fundamentalism, a resu...

  • Search For Freedom

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    Directed by Munizae Jahangir • 2003 • Pakistan
    SEARCH FOR FREEDOM traces the dramatic social and political history of Afghanistan from the 1920s to the present through the stories of four remarkable women: Princess Shafiqa Saroj, sister of the beloved progressive King Amanullah (1919-1929); ...

  • Tell Spring Not to Come This Year

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    Directed by Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy • 2015 • UK/USA
    Tell Spring Not to Come This Year follows one unit of the Afghan National Army over the course of their first year of deployment in Helmand without NATO support. It is an intimate film about the human side of combat, told from a ...

  • The Forbidden Strings

    تارهای ممنوعه
    Directed by Hasan Noori • 2019 • Iran/Qatar/Afghanistan
    Manual labourers during the day, rock musicians during the night, Akbar, Hakim, Mohammad and Soraya dream of performing their first rock concert in Afghanistan. They all come from Afghan refugee parents who fled to Iran in earl...

  • The Most Beautiful Country in the World

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    Directed by Želimir Žilnik • 2018 • Austria/Slovenia/Serbia/Croatia
    The film follows a group of young migrants in Vienna who break through the administrative labyrinths of checkings and gaining status and residence. We see their anxieties, mutual encouragement and achievements - while master...

  • The Republic of Herrskog

    جمهوری هرسکوگ
    Directed by Hamed Alizadeh • 2016 • Sweden
    With the explosion of the refugee crisis in Europe, small vulnerable refugee communities have emerged on the fringes of the big cities in Sweden. Herrskog hosts one such small colony of refugees of different nationalities. Stefan Lindquist ...

  • Young Afghans

    افغان‌های جوان
    Directed by Makez Rikweda, Sol Rikweda • 2010 • Afghanistan
    Young Afghans follows three charismatic students as they navigate their final year of university in Kabul. As Farzana, Mauj and Sabawoon discuss their hopes and dreams for the future, we also catch a glimpse of Afghanistan...