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Afghanistan
Features
Afghanistan’s Film Archives Were Saved from the Taliban Once Before. What Now?
Huge questions loom about the status of an archive of thousands of films that dates back to 1927.
By
Chris Lindahl
October 11, 2021 10:00 am
Features
Afghan Director Asks for Support from International Film Community: ‘Our Expression Will Be Stifled Into Silence’
Sahraa Karimi, the first female president of the Afghan state film company, says the Taliban's rule will threaten women and free expression.
By
Chris Lindahl
August 16, 2021 6:05 pm
Features
Film Archivists as Freedom Fighters: Restoring Afghan Films Destroyed by the Taliban
In the mid-1990s, many films were lost during the Taliban's reign of Afghanistan, but archivists in Kabul are trying to wrest these movies from being lost to history.
By
Ryan Lattanzio
November 3, 2019 2:45 pm
Features
7,000 Afghan Films Hidden From the Taliban Are Now Being Saved and Digitized
Habibullah Ali's efforts to digitally restore thousands of lost movies have turned him into the savior of Afghan film history.
By
Zack Sharf
September 14, 2017 12:54 pm
Awards
Academy Disqualifies Afghan Oscar Submission ‘Utopia’
Academy Disqualifies Afghan Oscar Submission 'Utopia'
By
Matt Brennan
November 16, 2015 11:00 am
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