Roya Sadat’s “Sima’s Song,” which world premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival, chronicles a pivotal moment in Afghanistan’s history through the lens of two college students in 1978. The drama follows a ...
Fahim Hashimy is an Afghan filmmaker and founder of the Ghan International Film Festival Australia. He spoke to Markela ...
KABUL, May 17 (Reuters) - Clouds of hashish and cigarette smoke float across a screen showing a dancing Pakistani woman, who evokes yowls of excitement from the hundreds of Afghan men passing their ...
LOS ANGELES -- Siddiq Barmak shot his first feature film with the only 35-mm camera still in existence in Afghanistan and with a cast of refugees and street beggars. The story, a chilling tale of the ...
After an airline denied her entry into Saudi Arabia to present her film “Sima’s Song,” which is playing in competition at the Red Sea Film Festival, Afghan filmmaker Roya Sadat is now set to visit the ...
“'Nothing is as it seems' perfectly captures the Afghanistan experience," Turkish filmmaker Gözde Kural says about her second feature, world premiering in Karlovy Vary's Crystal Globe Competition. By ...