minus $600.00 plus sibling meter. now she's on a quest to end van. dona anonymity, the world's biggest family in 45 minutes on d. w. how about taking a few? you could even take a chance, a don't expect to happy ending. literature west german. ah. dennis den, to trade on screen, the face of the country beyond the cliche. with the films produced, he reflect the countries social conflicts. the focus is usually on women pop

ups. they have shaped afghans, cinema of the past 20 years. as female stars and dramas. as directors and as produces of award winning films. fact since the taliban reclaimed power in august 2021. everything has changed over with mama. we don't create cinema but takes into account islamic values. national traditions and afghan culture. the radical islamic taliban has deprived women of their basic human rights, and films are becoming tools for propaganda. is this the end of afghan cinema? o, lethal make as we are now in exile cover to the dis, movies. we contents the mind of the people to take the friend a self assured movie culture had established itself in afghanistan with women as

major contributors. royal sadat ah, safa cutty, me. busy ah, we profile 2 of the countries most prominent female filmmakers who have been fighting for afghans cinema for many years. explain how afghans cinema developed into a serious film culture. ah, will show how female filmmakers managed to save themselves from the taliban since early on. they've had to learn how to fight back. we'll see how they support and protect each other. and how can cinema lives on in exile.

to understand how afghans stand, strong, female driven film scene developed, we go back to 1989 at soviet troops leave afghanistan after 10 years of occupation, a bloody civil war begins. 4 years later, the taliban takes over the regime of presses, women and bands any fall of art. in response to the september 11th, 2001 attacks the u. s. and its allies pushed back against the taliban. but the islamist extremists remain still controlling rural parts of the country. shooting films in afghanistan during this time, especially outside of the cities, is dangerous vot royal saddam from herat dares to do it. anyway. she taught herself the basics of filmmaking through reading and learned the rest directly on set her films tell the stories of afghan women like sariah, a police officer from carbone. she wants to help

a woman who has been sentenced to death by village elders for adultery. in doing so . she herself comes into conflict with the powerful tribal leaders soon after. i got rid of all my. hm. well, you said you don't global to me soon. you got brooklyn joy orders. yeah. i've got here heard him. i've been to kirkwood him drop alone. we always ultima agreed on nasha mobile as well. they don't can, in the so shows how freedom and the rule of law are undone by tribal traditions and an extremely conservative interpretation of islam. this especially affects women who break that convention like saddam herself for whom cinema is everything. with making

a fellow making love to like it kind of walk for me, it's is her the hall my life. she made her 1st film after afghanistan was liberated from the taliban in 2001. in her early twenties, she became one of the country's 1st female directors, a role model for many young afghan women, and a pioneer of afghan cinema. together with her sister aka documentary filmmaker and her husband, a film lecturer at cobble university, she founded her own production company. the royal film house has been assured she has produced more than 30 documentary films and television shows, showing the injustices in the lives of afghan women and their strength and courage . in her latest work, she profiles for women's rights activists. and they will try to their rights and i would a new one. often. this has to be one night at the country with all of us. all women, old men, the van of, of planner,

son of always in the headline of the news he everywhere. they are just only a victims and also adorned of position that the always the man and political man said give, this is a decision for them to read this movies for sure. we can, we can change even in the mind of the peoples to, to think differently. about that in 2013, to make these films accessible to afghanistan's female audience. so that created the herat international women's film festival. it became a meeting point for the country's female filmmakers, including director sarah curry. me kelly me was born in turan as only lived in afghanistan since 2012. her family fled

from afghanistan to run before she was born. all my life. why was it a few g somehow? refugee and eat on the few you know slovakia and i didn't have this feeling of being in home very much with me. these experience, my return craft honest on gave me a very unique feeling of being in home cut. amy studied at the film academy in bratislava, where she earned her doctorate. but she wants to shoes and tell her stories right here in cobbled. i wanted to be a storyteller of my own people, especially women of afghanistan. i wanted to see in 1st hand, what is going on inside my country. i 3 women are at the center of her latest film. ah, the women, strangers. but they share a common destiny. hey, this is not asking but to have it empty coverage because even anything positive

that the membership bishop left them a privileged or not all 3 of them. bristol, at the patriarchal structures in their country. this is the look into the daily lives of millions of afghan women. ranita, carry me travel throughout the country for 2 years, collecting stories, private donations, financed to shoes and in the rainy and production company, eventually covered the rest of the production cost. ah, but she doesn't just want to tell stories. she also wants to promote cinema f canister. in 2019, she won the bill to become president of the state form organisation act and film, becoming the 1st woman to head the institution. again, phil supports new productions and houses the countries entire film archive. at least what's left of it. afghan cinema is once again suffering from the taliban oppression.

he is the new president of afghan filled installed by the taliban. a amazon, it films that have been produced in the past 2 decades have been contrary to his law mc tradition liana novel. and what was that accurate from the beginning afghan cinema has been shaped by regime changes in the country, but has survived even the greatest of upheavals. p. the country's 1st cinema opened in cobble in 1934. 1 of the 1st and film production tells the story of a young villager with soft images in the 19 sixty's at cinemark canister, at least in the cities, experienced an upswing estate film organisation was founded and several movie theaters were built. the 1st kind of films made that if you, in the 1980s at that time, afghanistan was under soviet occupation,

cinema was encouraged, but also controlled and sense it. a lot of money was invested, making elaborate films like epic of love, possible. with the 1st taliban rule came a dark era, many films were destroyed and cinema was band. but after the islamists were asked in 2001 and new era began, movie theaters reopened. film make is could pursue their passions. ah, lo, budget productions in bollywood style enjoyed great popularity that was shot in small film studios like this one in july labatte in the northeast of the country. afghan filmmakers likes to do it by mark, have taken the international cinema seen by storm. his feature film osama one, several awards ah, and there are plenty of women besides royal saddam and sa ha cut amy, for example,

shout about new said at all. madame connie they all want to tell the country stories, gang international recognition at film festivals. the tele bands return to power marks another difficult time the emerging cultural scene and its main players are in danger. on august 15th 2021. the taliban recaptured the capital. cobble islamist had been advancing from province to province. since nato forces began withdrawing. hundreds of thousands of people desperately tried to flee. these were days of fear for sara carini as well. were the shot. he does have a gift with

whatever stay or go, what are the remaining escape routes? vital decisions had to be made in a very short time. i knew that in my life will be in danger. if i stay and if i leave alone, so my family will be in danger. so i decided to leave. i left everything behind my in my hall, my apartment, my war to my dreams, averaging 2 days after the fall of cobble, her family managed to escape for your fidelity is currently in the united states. she follows the news of her homeland from afar. suddenly i see that the carlo juan captured the hart city and asked her to days the capture all the cowboy wall and other cities. it was unbelievable, like huge a swatch and gritty table and had of old movies. she was only gonna stay for

a few weeks to prepare a directorial work for the seattle problem. there. she will stage a 1000 splendid sons based on the best selling novel by afghan writer, khalid pussy. any more washington has become her home in exile. it's really hard moment for us. my generation like me, we start from 0 and we warp gritty hard. during this 20 years. we not only use the shipment, but it was our land. our country did as a people died did as a people, they don't have even they don't have flu. her colleagues, article amy ended up in rome. after fleeing afghanistan, she received a guest professorship at

a state film school. i am very grateful that i have this opportunity to share my experience as an african filmmaker with the students that help. ready me to, to heal my once. my pains, ah, what will happen next in the lives of the women who stayed in afghanistan until gender segregation can be guaranteed everywhere. many will not be able to go to work. a concept is being prepared. this matter will be resolved as soon as possible to decrease appear at targeting women. female afghans can only study if they have no contact with men. secondary goals, schools are closed. women are no longer allowed to drive a loan for long distances and no longer travel by plane without the company of their husbands. the decree that women must cover at least their heads and faces in

public, sparks protests across the country. but even so, more and more women are disappearing from public spaces. almost all afghan women share the experience that men determine what goes on in their own lives. being a woman in such a traditional and potter call society and especially an independent woman, it is, it is not easy. it was that one of the biggest, the struggles that i, i had in under the taliban. she risked her life now. she wants to support those who have not yet managed to escape. she makes a call to cobble as yet what is the situation to women go outside or not at all? how are they being treated moment despite which they mean at that? unfortunately, i no longer have any optimism at all. i see to produce is an artist and former

director of the legendary arrianna in cobble the 2nd notice cinema in the country. as guns fossil christening by the last that was my brother and i left home to get something important on by on my panel all happen. i mean, best of all the shop my brother was driving and i was in the back of the car about a month ago about the key as phenomena in the senate in the taliban stopped us and questioned my brother to allow. huh. yeah. which that they asked who he was taking with him. my mom thought was thought he said, this is my sister with them. but the taliban replied, yes. how do i know if that is your sister or some one else? yes, she drew yakima before friday, asked vicky yenny yet not even a brother and sister have the right to go out or buy anything without being

bothered to our town. but a woman has no right to have a job. so she has to stay close to holland corner white wash. she has to do the cooking and housework. there was nothing else, lab by the quantity that we're not just gonna hate soft promises to help us eat her plea afghanistan, they plan to stay in touch roja. so that can relate to a seat is experiences of living under the taliban. she often encountered resistance in her family as well with it. it was very hard. what for my father turned to the stand by the i'm doing and if my uncle for a long time, he don't came to our home. because when i go for shooting, lem is a lot can can, and for the courage to make films against all odds was depicted in this documentary

from 2008 shot by spanish director alba. so taura, it tells how royal saddam explores and breaks through the narrow limits of patriarchal society. but on one side of on the letter in the lincoln, in my bedroom it was indeed make as well as in the making them. on the honda hobbit, he turned on cuz she had a big of a mccoy on bush and they're gonna keep you in there doing. i got a family mcclellan, highly muscular, by the zone to help them on the planet over the summer, but it normally doesn't have a still monday. megan and says, my royal saddam and the albatross have since been closely connected privately and professionally to day cetera is the co producer of satellites new film, a forgotten history, filming on location in afghanistan had to be cancelled. but giving up is out of the question that he said that he so i'm not sure because we also have the ocean mission in

a studio room right now. da cool. so they're in different county, they're cracked as the female act sees the actor, the in, defend location, different country. and the situation is also not clear that they can travel or not . this is a hot part of their report. that shadow for this movie, people are fighting to keep afghan cinema alive from abroad. but what about in afghanistan itself? the taliban claim it treats the country's film history with respect. they say there will be no destruction of fillmore bands on pitches this time around. the archive of afghan film is very important and has historical significance. it's completely secured in the presidential palace. no one has access there who could damage it, was it sounds hopeful, but the fact is all film productions around the country have been cancelled,

and cinemas are closed. in november 2021 to cree prohibits the television, screening of films in series featuring women, or any content that contradicts shuree a law, ah only propaganda videos of produce. now. even though most afghan directors have now left the country, their strongest works of the past 2 decades remain at can cinema lives on abroad. as seen here at the do hoc international film festival. in the autonomous region of kurdistan. it's a refuge for curds who are subject to oppression and censorship. in many countries, cinema plays a special role here as a sign of solidarity. the festival dedicates a separate section to ask and cinema sarah her. amy is also showing her latest film here. since mine is a somehow our way for him to fight against the brutal it is the program also

includes award winning kurdish productions such as the opening film look up a deep insight into a rocky society, marked by patriarchal structures and corruption and notes in here. the president of the international jury is one of the most important directors in afghan film history. ah, but you should see the boy more boston or cinema undoubtedly reflects all events that we experience. it mirrors our lives larger. that's why afghan cinema, as well as kurdish cinema tells about the deep pain of the population throughout history was uprooted, already spoke with his most successful film bar, mac will count the dramatic ears during the taliban 1st reign of terror in the late ninety's ninety's. he used amateur actors, women were not allowed to work or leave the house alone at this time. those without my family members risk starvation. a single mother has no choice but to disguise

her daughter as a boy, osama becomes her name. but when she is forced to attend religious classes, her disguise is discovered. the sharia court decides her fate over hello hi, this is the in 2004. so duke, by mark, received a golden globe for this film among other awards. he's convinced that the creativity

of afghan direct is, is a result of the difficult production conditions that they face in his country. sought the film, us hogshead as seen a lawyer get the most of our film makers see, especially the young filmmakers don't have producers o dot m w to yolanda, so they try to find various other ways of turning their ideas and concepts for cinema and to reality. all on the cellular that's, you know, mobile to well, what it was in each one of these filmmakers are internationally recognized, but have been forced to live and work far away from their homeland. unfortunately, this is a common fight for many afghan directors, including marty m. ghani, the daughter, a former afghan president, ashram connie. she lives in the u. s. her films deal with the lesson own chapters of afghanistan's history. her best known work is about 5 unfinished films. may june communist rule in afghanistan,

films that stand somewhere between us and propaganda. the movie shows what the filmmakers put up with in order to be able to work. for example, shooting with real ammunition, because blanks were not available. regular runs, the 5 shall ramp muslim glass if i did measure them. you know, alaysyah that he got a hold on were themselves on the settlement. the, i'm all, i'm all that from shall yet one assumption hold 0. the little mixed up from the love and go, director charbonneau said, had fled to hamburg after the taliban took over. her 1st feature film premiered in current in 2016 and in her 2nd work which one multiple awards. she managed to show afghanistan in a different light. a 15 year old dreams of a career as a bollywood star on the streets of 19 eighties. cobble. ah

hale ah, the filmmakers of afghanistan and even more so the female directors a used to struggling in order to make their films, they processed their hardships through their work. when we succeed to get out from the airport, i decided to write about it than i share it with the producer. and i told her that i want to make film about those hours. it is about her, our struggles to get to a requisition flight. the taller one, limited filmmakers or artists. it doesn't mean that we are going to, we're to stop. we will continue all. and i will tell our stories from different perspective napkins. leading filmmakers

a deeply rooted in the countries film history with global recognition and networks . they continue to shape and developers, and many of them are not willing to give up afghans. cinema will live on an act, and filmmakers have shown that they won't be stopped even by the taliban. where you moved by our story about afghan filmmakers. tell us what you think in the comments and hit the subscribe button to dig deeper with us. ah ah! with

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