ah, dennis tan decide 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. plus they have shaped afghan cinema of the past 20 years. as female stars, in dramas, as directors, and as produces of award winning films. bought since the taliban reclaimed power in august 2021. everything has changed over with mamma. 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?

ah, the filmmakers we are now in exile to this movie. 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 country's most prominent female filmmakers who have been fighting for afghan cinema for many years. we explain how afghans cinema developed into a serious film culture. ah,

i 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 against cinema lives on in exile. to understand how afghanistan strong, female driven film scene developed, we go back to 1989 and soviet troops leave afghanistan after 10 years of occupation . a bloody civil war begins. 4 years later, the taliban takes over their regime, oppressors, 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. but royal for that, from herat dares to do it. anyway. she told 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 number. you said you don't global to listen. you got the kind of joy order. sure. i've got here. heard him. i've been to curriculum drop alone. we are brutal tomo i guido nasha mowbray who they don't. cronyn 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 mccain not to like it. kind of walk for me it's, it's 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 lecture 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

. and 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 united country with all of us. all women, old men, the van of, of grandest on of all was in the headline of the news everywhere. there 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 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 and zone. he lived in afghanistan since 2012. a family fled from afghanistan to run before she was born. all my life. why was it a few g somehow refugee and eat on a few eunice laquia 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 her 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 storyteller of my own people, especially women of afghanistan. i wanted to see in 1st hand, what is going on inside my country. ah,

key 3 women are the center of her latest film. ah, the women, strangers, but they share a common destiny. hey, this is nebraska, but sammy that has the coverage because even i that i, mr. bishop of them are privileged or not all 3 of them. priscilla, the patriarchal structures in their country. this is the look into the daily lives of millions of afghan women ranita car. amy traveled throughout the country for 2 years, collecting stories, private donations financed to shoot. and an iranian production company eventually covered the rest of the production costs, but she doesn't just want to tell stories. she also wants to promote cinema in afghanistan. in 2019, she won the bid to become president of the state film organisation act and film. becoming the 1st woman to head the institution of can film supports new productions

and houses the country's 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 film installed by the taliban. a amazon in films that have been produced in the past 2 decades have been contrary to his lama tradition. miliano novel. accurate. from the beginning at can 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 african film production tells the story of a young villager with soft images in the 19 sixty's 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 since it, a lot of money was invested, making elaborate films like epic of love, possible. with the 1st tell about role came a dark era, many films were destroyed and cinema was banned, bought after the islamists were asked it in 2001, a new era began. movie theaters reopened, filmmakers could pursue their passions. low 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 like cedric, the 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, carry me for example, shout about no said at all. madame connie they all want to tell the country stories. again, 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 sarah carini as well . with this issue with one of them stay or go, what other remaining escape routes vital decisions had to be made in a very short time. i knew that in my life when than europe, if i stay and if i need alone or my family will be in danger. so i decided to leave. i left everything behind my, my home, my apartment, my award, my dreams. every king, 2 days after the full of cobble, her family managed to escape, royal fidel is currently in the united states. she follows the news of her homeland

from afar. suddenly i see that a call upon capture had ot sitina. and after 2 days, the capture owls, the cowboy wall and other cities it was and believe about light. you just watching gritty cable and heard of uh movies. she was only gonna stay for a few weeks to prepare a directorial work for the seattle or prior mm. there she will stage a 1000 splendid sons based on the best selling novel by afghan writer, hunted pussy any more. what was she unten has become her home in exile. mm sweetie. heart moment for us. my generation like me. we start from 0 and we war hard. during this 20 years. we not only used a shipment, but it was our land. our country did as a people died did as

a people. they don't have it when they don't have food. ah, her colleague soccer 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 afghan 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 girls schools are closed. women are no longer allowed to drive alone 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. ah, 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 patriarchal 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 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, mamma? that's fine. i wish they me not that unfortunately i no longer have any optimism at all. ah, i see, to produce is an artist and former director of the legendary arianna and kabul, the 2nd oldest cinema in the country. as guns foresaw cousin, he bought his the last that was my brother and i left home to get something important by on my panel. all happened. i'm it kind of brush. avoid the shot of my brother was driving them and i was in the back of the car about a month. all of us the key as phenomena in the senate in the taliban stopped us and questioned my brother in law, which that they asked who he was taking with him by mom thought it was thought he

said, this is my sister madame of work. but the taliban replied he has a how do i know if that is your sister, jenny? yeah, not even a brother and sister. i 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. and so she has to stay close to home or not quite what she has to do, the cooking and housework. there was nothing else by the quantity that we're not gonna hate santa promises to help us eat her flee afghanistan. they plan to stay in touch. royal, so that can relate to a seat is experiences of living under the taliban. she often encountered resistance in her family as well because very hard. what? but my father turned to the stand by the i'm doing and if my i'm kill for a long time, he don't came to our home. because when i go for shooting,

i miss a lot can, can 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 ladder, he looked in the, in the can them, under him, it was in a good one. as in lima, call them on the hollow, hardy turned on, or she had a big of a mccoy on bush and they were gonna give me one a little. i thought, a family max of a highly muscular by the zone. 2 of them on the planet with us among the normally doesn't have a still my with megan and says, my royal saddam and the albatross have since been closely connected privately and professionally to day. so tori is the co producer of satellites, new film, a forgotten history, filming on location in afghanistan had to be cancels for giving up is out of the

question. but he said that the so for the final shooting wanted because we also have the ocean mission in a studio room right now. da cool. so they're in different county, their quick test of female actress, 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 production for this movie. people are fly shin 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 or 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 cinema's a closed november 2021 to cray, prohibits the television, screening of films in series featuring women or any content that contradicts sharia 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 against 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 codes 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. seen on line is somehow our way for him to fight against the little tile. it is. the program also includes award winning kurdish productions such as the opening film who took up a deep insight into a rocky society marked by patriarchal structures and corruption of it. note in here, the president of the international jury is one of the most important directors in afghan film history ah, begins jack siena, 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. numbers uprooted lady smallwood, his most successful, philip bar, mac, localised, dramatic years during the tele vans 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. ah, the sharia court decides her fight. over her la i did you mother the j. well, we're gonna dump her mother clear. douglasville. come okay, now i did that. i am

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. i've seen the law, you get the most of our filmmakers see, especially the young filmmakers don't have producers. oh, w to yolanda, so they try to find various other ways of turning their ideas and concepts for cinema and to reality, all of these valuable that's, you know, mobile to well, what it was 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 monte m, ghani, or the daughter of former african president, connie,

she lives in the us. her films deal with the lesser known chapters of afghanistan's history. her best known work is about 5, unfinished films may june communist rule and half canister in films that stand somewhere between us and propaganda. the movie show is what the filmmakers put up with in order to be able to work, for example, shooting with real ammunition. because blanks were not available. the rest of the alarm muslims, like if i make them, you know, i'm leisure actually sort of from what i missed, something called unsettled like the i'm on, i'm on the for sure. yeah. want assumption. hold me something that let her go. director charbonneau said had fled to hamburg after the taliban took over. her 1st feature film premier had incurred in 2016. and in her 2nd work which one multiple awards, she managed to show up canister 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. then 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 our equation flight the taliban,

limited filmmakers or art is. it doesn't mean that we are going to be able 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. with

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