Afghanistan Movies

Sameer is a middle-class young man, who lives with his younger brother. He doesn't have much except a big house left by his parents. He is sick of...

Afghanistan is one of the last places on earth where photographers used a simple type of instant camera called the kamra-e-faoree for means of making...

A New Psychological Documentary About Children

In March 2001, the ruling Taliban destroyed Afghanistan's foremost tourist attraction, the 1600 year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan. This film follows the...

A gullible man, once manipulated, rises with clarity and vengeance, determined to dismantle the liars who used him

An anti-war film in the tradition of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica as well as John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s ‘Happy Xmas (War Is...

What happens when you can no longer practice the profession that is part of your identity? You Can’t Stop the Music is a portrait from...

Mahbouba Seraj had what every other Afghan wanted. A US passport and protected passage through the frenzied masses that had descended on Kabul...

In 1979, after the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan, millions of Afghans were forced to leave their homeland to save their lives, and in the...

Shooting on location in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, director Salar Pashtoonyar uses a thought-provoking yet powerfully humane hybrid of...

The story of an old, lonesome talisman-writer, who earns his money with prophecy and has already lost the hope for acknowledgement in life, but...

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

For ten years, the journalists of the Etilaat Roz have been making the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Kabul—entirely transparent,...

Hamid, a rich car salesman from Kabul, is plagued by nightmares. Are these just figments of his imagination or is he hiding some dark secrets from...

An Afghan man and his wife attempt to cross the border to reach Europe illegally. After many difficulties and dangers, it is time to give birth...

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...

Through this haunting portrayal of an aid worker’s story, Salar Pashtoonyar sheds light on the troubling realities of a nation in turmoil in...

The film introduces us to an Afghan woman who wants to travel to another city and an American woman who mistreats her.

Twenty-five years ago, when the Taliban took over Afghanistan and music was banned, Gholam Nabi and his family suffered a lot of oppression. He and...