Afghanistan Movies

An Afghan mother and a US filmmaker, connected through one stray bullet, forge a surprising friendship amidst America's longest war.

In the video Dome (2005), one is confronted with the inexplicable behavior of a boy, his face raised toward the sky, who turns round and round,...

Two men travel a shared road. One acts with honesty and gratitude, the other with deceit and disgrace. Though their destination is identical, their...

Sediq and Yousof work for the small electricity distribution sub-station in the district of Char Qala-e-Wazirabad. From day to day, they have to deal...

Afghan beauty girl wants to be a model. But all his dreams are destroyed.

The postman’s inextricable difficulties as he does his rounds in the streets of Kabul, where addresses are often mysterious and deliveries akin...

An ambulance company and its tireless heroes doing their job day and night in the chaotic streets and traffic jams of Kabul. A team made up of a...

Abdul’s video work In Transit features school children filling a military airplane’s voids with cotton, attaching ropes, and attempting...

Marefat high school morning assembly: the girls shift with a few boys, and faculty entering the school courtyard at 5:30 am, gathering, lining up...

As a refugee, Homayoon Zarian has been in Afghanistan for eight years now and his future looks bleak. His situation and that of many others shows how...

Janan, a simple and naive young man with short-term memory loss, is sent out of his home to buy salt. But along the way, he becomes caught in...

Filmed the night after the Taliban’s re-taking of Kabul, Takbir evokes the lasting material and cultural legacies of Afghanistan’s many...

An independently-produced dramatic feature that depicts Taliban atrocities committed from Kabul to the northern border during the dark era of Taliban...

At one of the many checkpoints in the city, policemen take turns, exposed to all dangers, far from their families, sheltered in containers where they...

“Saralish” means arranged marriage. In rural Iran, men dominate. A little girl is exchanged by another one, not even knowing what is...

Rayhan is a student who had his life together in Afghanistan but then lost his family in an attack. This made him flee to London to have a better...

Annie Goldson and Kay Ellmers’ doco, expanded from the film they made for Maori Television, takes a timely look at New Zealand’s military...

Since the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban have imposed a reign of terror that is particularly brutal towards women....