Afghanistan Archives

Shrouded in Hopelessness—‘The Swallows of Kabul’, dir. Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec, 2019

The lives of two couples waiting for their real-life to begin in Taliban-run Kabul are entwined in a heart-breaking animated adaptation of Yasmina Khadra's novel

January 30th, 2020|Country: Afghanistan, Algeria, France|

One Afghan Family’s Clandestine Perspective of the Contemporary Global Refugee Crisis in ‘Midnight Traveler’, dir. Hassan Fazili, 2019

An urgent documentary about a family seeking asylum provides an intimate perspective of the way that countless people plea for state powers to recognize their humanity

January 14th, 2020|Country: Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey|

Film: We Are Not Together, dir. Alex Nezam, 2019

An affecting documentary, where the marginalized citizens of Athens—refugees and Greeks alike—speak their minds about the power structures, divisions and injustice that they're fighting against

October 16th, 2019|Country: Afghanistan, Balochistan, Greece, Iran, Mali, Syria, USA|

Film: RocKabul, dir. Travis Beard, 2018

A dive into the underground rock scene of Afghanistan with a self-taught heavy metal band District Unknown at the forefront, made by the founder of Kabul’s first rock festival.

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From Afghanistan:

Shrouded in Hopelessness—‘The Swallows of Kabul’, dir. Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec, 2019

One Afghan Family’s Clandestine Perspective of the Contemporary Global Refugee Crisis in ‘Midnight Traveler’, dir. Hassan Fazili, 2019

Film: We Are Not Together, dir. Alex Nezam, 2019

Film: RocKabul, dir. Travis Beard, 2018

Film: A Thousand Girls Like Me, dir. Sahra Mani, 2018

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