they will not stop telling their stories aren't 21. next on dw, we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. romantic corner tread hotspot for food chairs and some great cultural memorials to boot. d w, travel off we go. ah. a dentist and 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. 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. but since the taliban reclaimed power in august 2021. everything has changed over with mama will create cinema but takes into account is la mic 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 makers, we are now in exile to this movies. we contents the mind of the people to think different. a self assured movie culture had established soften afghanistan

with women as major contributors. royal sadat ah, safa cutty, me. ringback 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, 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 afghanistan strong female driven film scene developed, we go back to 1989 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 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 fed out from herat days to do it. anyway. she told herself the basics of filmmaking through reading and lent the rest directly on set her films tell the stories of afghan women who like sariah, a police officer from carbone. 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 all my number. he said, we don't robinson he got brooklyn of joy, a little shallow. i've got here heard him. i've been to kirkwood m. developer done robins ultima i guido nasha ma both who they don't can him. the soul 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 my thing,

not to like it kind of walk 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 a 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 documentaries fillings 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 wouldn't be one of them. this has to be one related country. with all the facts. all women, old men,

the van about grandest on all was in the headline of the news everywhere. there are just only a victims and also a 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 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 hello. amy was born into iran as only 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 in it on a few jennifer walker and i didn't have this feeling of being in home very much with me. these experience, my return to afghanistan 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 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 are strangers, but they share a common destiny. hey, this is nebraska but evidently covered because stephen i did that. i measure bishop

of 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 car. amy traveled 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 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 filled installed by the taliban. a amazon films

that have been produced in the past 2 decades have been contrary to his lama traditional media on an article. and what was that 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 1934. 1 of the 1st akin film production tells the story of a young villager with soft images in the 19 sixty's, a sinner. myrna canister, at least in the cities, experienced an upswing. the state 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 television role came a dark era, many films were destroyed and cinema was banned. but after the islamists were asked it in 2001, a new era began, movie theaters reopened. filmmaker is quick to shew their passions, ah, low budget productions in bollywood style. enjoyed great popularity that was shot in small films 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, half cut amy, for example, shout about no 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 recap, should 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 covering as well. one of the shaft neither. so give the com and then if you wanna

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 really been than europe if i stay and if i need long. so my family will be in danger, so i decided to leave. i left everything behind my my home i. of course on my was my dream. averaging 2 days after the fall of koppel family managed to escape various fidel is currently in the united states. she follows the news of her homeland from afar. suddenly i see that the parliament captured and after 2 days, the capture all the cobble and other cities, it was and believe it was like you just watch a video table and movies. she was only going to stay for a few weeks to prepare

a directory, work to the seattle opera. there she will stage a 1000 splendid sons based on the best selling novel by african writer 100 policy any more washington has become her home in exile. me. it's really hard moment for us. my generation like me start from 0 and we work very hard. during this 20 years. we not only use the shipment, will lose our line, our country did as a people died. did it a people they don't have you and they don't have the colleagues creamy ended up in run him after fleeing afghanistan, she received a gift professorship at a state film school. ah,

i'm very good at him that i have this opportunity to share my experience as an f one from making with the students that help. ready me to, to him my want, my pains 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. 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 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, 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 cobble 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 on my panel all happen. i mean, best of all the shot my brother was driving them and i was in the back of the car about a month all of us. he asked phenomena in the senate in the taliban stopped us and questioned my brother in law who of mom which that they asked who he was taking with him. but mom thought her boys 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, to you yet another pharmacy party this year. has vicki, 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 that a so she has to stay close to home or not. why was she has to do the cooking and housework? there was nothing else lab by the quantity that we're not gonna hate. sarah promises to help us eat a plea. afghanistan. i plan to stay in touch. roy sedan 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 when my father turned to the stand mother, i'm doing and if my uncle for a long time, he don kim to all our home. because when i go for shooting, lemme is a lot can't 9 can. and so 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 it royal saddam explores and breaks through the narrow limits of patriarchal society. but on one side on the ladder than that you may get them under him. it was indigo as an email on them on the honda hobbit each, and on course she had a good, a good bit of a push i am. gosh, i've been with i thought of some other my clever highland muscular. good bye. this uncle holds them on the quantity with us a month, but it normally doesn't pay the so my, this is eddie megan and said, oh yes, saddam and i'll but so tara, have since been closely connected privately and professionally to day. so tora 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 sent me all day that he so for that i'm not sure you wanted because we also have the ocean mission in

a studio room right now. da cool. so they're in different county, they're creek test. the female at axis, the actor, they're 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 product 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. close. it sounds hopeful, but the fact is all film productions around the country have been cancelled and

cinemas are closed. and 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 ask and 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 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 brutal it is. the program also

includes award winning kurdish productions such as the opening film, lack of a deep insight into a rocky society, marked by patriarchal structures and corruption of a note in here. the president of the international jury is one of the most important directors in afghan film history. ah, let me just see a 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 a poodle. he spoke with his most successful film bar, mac, with house the dramatic years during the taliban 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 mel, 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. hello, i did you mother? ha, you were gonna dance her mother cleo douglasville cover. okay, now i i am in 2004. so duke by 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 had suddenly the lawyer get the most of our filmmakers 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 shoulder. 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 of former afghan president, ashram connie. she lives in the us 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 art and propaganda. the movie shows what the filmmakers put out with in order to be able to work, for example, shooting with real ammunition, because blanks were not available. the rest of 5 shall run muslim love for fighting major them. you know, alaysyah actually got a job on williams johnson calling settlement. the i'm all i'm all done through shall. yeah. one is launching hard sulfur unique children that love and go director sharper. no 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 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 be able 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 ah, with

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