since the 1st female jalen israel, his liaison, the gender gap in space exploration. germany's 1st female astronaut, it has been waiting for years to get her turn. a private initiative is pushing to make it happen. me personally is just a dream. i've always had of always wanted to see the us from destiny for space starts more, jason on d. w with a dentist and 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.

thought so they have shaped afghan cinema of the past 20 years. as female stars in dramas, as directors, and as produces of award winning films. thought since the taliban reclaimed parent august 2021. everything has changed over with mamma. we don't create cinema 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, lethal make as we are now in exile? contra to a dis, movies. we contents the mind of the peoples thing different a so for sure. movie culture had established itself in afghanistan with women as

major contributors. royal sadat. ah, saga, cutting me. ringback busy busy ah, we profile 2 of the countries most prominent female filmmakers who have been fighting for afghans cinema. for many years. we 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 afghan 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 up to 10 years of occupation . a bloody civil war begins. 4 years later, the taliban takes over the regime of presses, women and bands any form 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 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,

some causes oh and 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 a ma. hm. well, he said we don't go to mitchell. he got vocal of joy. sure. i've got he heard him. i've been to target him, drop or done. we always ultima. i googled on nasha more both for they don't chron him. the fool 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 sedan herself, for whom cinema is everything with making a fellow making,

not unlike it kind of work for me it's. it's a whole 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 cry through their rights and i wouldn't be one of them. this has to be one united country with all of us. all women, all men the read about grandest on

always in the headline of the news everywhere. there are just all the victims and also during the position that the always the man and political man did give this disposition for them to this movies. for sure, we can, we can change even in the mind of the people to, to tang differently about that. in 2013, to make these films accessible to afghanistan's female audience. so not created the herat international women's film festival. it became a meeting point for the countries. female filmmakers including director sarah kennedy, me telling him he was born into iran, arizona lived in afghanistan since 2012. a family fled from afghanistan to iran

before she was born on while, why was it a few g somehow refugee and eat on a few generous la kia and i didn't have this feeling of bringing home very much with me this experience, my return, trav, 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 want it 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 the center of her latest film. ah, the women, strangers. but they share a common destiny, a texas, nebraska, but m m c capital. because steven, i mean that, that,

that mr. bishop of them are 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 car. amy traveled throughout the country for 2 years, collecting stories, private donations, financed to shoot. and an arabian 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 farm organisation act and film becoming the 1st woman to head the institution. again, phil 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, filled in by the taliban. amazon, in films that have been produced in the past 2 decades, have been contrary to his lama tradition, miano nozzle. i mean what, what's the accurate from the beginning? afghans 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 19341 of the 1st and can 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 television rule came a dark era, many films were destroyed and cinema was banned. but after the islamists were asked it in 2001, i knew ear 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. ah, afghan filmmakers like cedric remark have taken the international cinema seen by storm . his feature film osama one, several awards ah, and there are plenty of women besides royal sadat and sa, half carry me for example. shattered by new said at all. marianna connie

ah, 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 having as well, were the shot. he does have a good and then if you

wanna 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 live alone, so my family will be in danger. so i decided to leave. i left everything behind my my home, my apartment, my war to my dreams. every king. 2 days after the fall of cobble, her family managed to escape. royal for that is currently in the united states. she follows the news of her homeland from afar. suddenly i see that a coll, yvonne capture had ot ctm and after 2 days they capture all the cobble and other cities. it was and believe about like you just watch and gritty

cable heard about movies. she was only gonna stay for a few weeks to prepare a directorial work for the seattle operator in there. she will stage a 1000 splendid sons based on the best selling novel by afghan writer, holiday cassini. what was she chin has become her home in exile. is sweetheart moment for us. my generation like me read. we start from 0 and we war gritty heart. 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 to blue. her colleagues 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 goals, 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 protest crossed 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 patriarchal society and especially an independent woman, it is, it is not easy. it was that one of the biggest struggle 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? mama, that's why i wish they me not that unfortunately i no longer have any optimism at

all. 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 christening by the last that was my brother and i left home to get something important by under my panel brought me aboard the shot of my brother was driving it. um and i was in the back of the car about a mouthful of uh, the key as phenomena in the senate in the taliban stopped us and question my brother ma'am. which that they asked who he was taking with him by mon, taller boys. he said, this is my sister madame of work. but the taliban replied, yes. how do i know if that is your sister or some one else? yes, she drew yet another pharmacy. hard. as vicky nanny, yet not even a brother and sister have the right to go out or buy anything without being

bothered. and i talked to her. a woman has no right to have a job that is so she has to stay close to home for now. why was she has to do the cooking and house work? there was nothing else, but i hate sarah promises to help us eat a flea afghanistan. i plan to stay in touch. royal sadat can relate to a seat, his experiences of living under the taliban. she often encountered resistance in her family as well with it was very hard, but for my father turned to the stand by the i'm doing and of my, i'm kill for a long time. he don't came to our home because when i go for shooting lemme is a lot can, can answer the courage to make films against all odds was depicted in this

documentary from 2000 a night shot by spanish director alba. so taura, it tells how it royal saddam explores and breaks through the narrow limits of patriarchal society. but on one side, on the letter, it didn't really get them under him. it was in a giggle as an e mail on them on the ha, ha, did each and on call. she had a good, a good bit of a hotel and gosh, i've devoted to vicky with me on a little. i thought of them all the max of a highly muscular group by the zone to help them on the quantity. but within a month of normally devin have a so my desire to even get him says, oh yes, saddam and i'll but so tara, have since been closely connected privately and professionally to day. so torah is the co producer of set up a new film, a forgotten history, filming on location in afghanistan had to be cancelled. but giving up is out of the question that you sent me at all the the so for the final shooting? well, because we also have the ocean mission in a studio,

a and right now de cool. also they are indifferent county. they're cracked s female at axis the actor. they are 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 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 sharia law. ah, only propaganda videos are produced now. even though most afghan directors have now left the country, their strongest works of the past 2 decades, remain afghan cinema lives on abroad. as seen here at the do hawk 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. see, now, mine is a somehow our way for them to fight against the brutality. the program also

includes award winning thirtyish productions, such as the opening films 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 we have seen a boy more boston or cinema, undoubtedly reflects all events that we experience. it mirrors our lives larger and that's why afghan cinema, as well as kurdish cinema tells about the deep pain of the population throughout history was a booted laurie smallwood. his most successful film bar mac recounts the dramatic years during the tele vans 1st reign of terror. in the late 19 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. her sharia court decides her fate. over holiday. did you mother the yellow you? well, we're gonna dance her mother glue douglasville. come okay, now i i am in 2004. the duke bar mac 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 upset of seen them all. you get the most of our filmmakers, especially the young filmmakers, don't have producers. that a number that you're going into, so they try to find various other ways of turning their ideas and concepts for cinema into reality. all the shows on the moment. well, what it was 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 of ken directors, including mahdi i'm ghani, or the daughter of former afghan 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 made during communist rule in afghanistan,

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 let me show them. you know, i'm leisure actually sort of on with me. something called unsettled the i'm on. i'm on that for sure. yeah. one assumption for me, something that love and good director sharper, no, 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. 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 her equation flight. the tall amman, limited filmmakers or artists. it doesn't mean that we are going to, we're to stop. we will continue. 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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