The challenge facing the film’s protagonist is immense. After surviving her family’s massacre, Leila’s only goal in life is to find her son, Omid. “In a country where being a woman means being less ...
After an airline denied her entry into Saudi Arabia to present her film “Sima’s Song,” which is playing in competition at the Red Sea Film Festival, Afghan filmmaker Roya Sadat is now set to visit the ...
Roya Sadat’s “Sima’s Song,” which world premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival, chronicles a pivotal moment in Afghanistan’s history through the lens of two college students in 1978. The drama follows a ...
LOS ANGELES -- Siddiq Barmak shot his first feature film with the only 35-mm camera still in existence in Afghanistan and with a cast of refugees and street beggars. The story, a chilling tale of the ...
Sahraa Karimi, who escaped Kabul after the Taliban took power, will talk about the situation facing her colleagues inside the country and those living as refugees: "We cannot let the world forget." By ...
KABUL (Reuters) - Clouds of hashish and cigarette smoke float across a screen showing a dancing Pakistani woman, who evokes yowls of excitement from the hundreds of Afghan men passing their time in ...
The Reader is grateful to Saba Ayman-Nolley for her work on this story as a Persian-to-English translator. A retired psychologist born in Iran, she has helped many Afghan refugees as a volunteer with ...
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