Efforts to protect, restore, and digitize that window into Afghanistan’s history emerged over the last 20 years, coinciding with a robust return of film and TV to the country. But now that the ...

Over the past 20 years, America and its allies in Afghanistan helped finance and train a new generation of Afghan film and TV professionals. Last summer, amid the rapid and chaotic U.S. military ...

Afghan Film was juggling 22 films at different stages of production — three from female directors — that will be lost for the foreseeable future.

Holding forth at a masterclass she delivered at the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Tabakalera venue on Tuesday Sept. 21, Shahrbanoo Sadat, the Afghan filmmaker whose body of work includes 2019 ...

Afghan Film was established in 1968, though Afghanistan’s cinema declined in the 1990s after the fall of its communist government. Under the Taliban’s rule, art was prohibited.

Afghan Film Head Sahraa Karimi on Her Escape From Kabul and Why Fellow Filmmakers Need Help to Avoid a “Genocide” The director and head of Afghan Film spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about why ...

The state-funded Afghan Film was founded in the late 1960s to support emerging content creators. After invading Afghanistan in 1979, the Soviets offered cultural training initiatives to students ...

The team was founded by Afghan technology entrepreneur Roya Mahboob, who was asked in 2016 by FIRST Global, the organizers of an Olympics-style robotics competition, to form a team from Afghanistan.

Karimi, an Afghan filmmaker and the first woman to head the state-run Afghan Film Organization, decided on the spot to get herself, her brothers and nieces out of Afghanistan, even though she knew ...

Afghan director Siddiq Barmak uses irony and grotesque scenes in "Opium War," his film about the strains between local people and Western soldiers fighting the Taliban.</p> ...

Afghan Film was juggling 22 films at different stages of production — three from female directors — that will be lost for the foreseeable future.