How do you make a documentary when you can't film in person — and even hiring a cameraperson is risky? That was the challenge for the award-winning Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who left the country ...

S1: Welcome in San Diego , it's Jade Hindman , one of the films in this year's GI Film Festival highlights the importance of interpreters during the war in Afghanistan. We'll talk with the filmmakers.

Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Now the 14-year-old Afghan boy with bright green eyes is getting ready for a ...

When you hear the term "film premiere," you are likely to think of Hollywood or New York — not Kabul. But just last week, an award-winning short film was screened in the Afghan capital, and for a good ...

Buzkashi Boys is a forthcoming, American-funded film about Afghanistan’s national sport: spelt Buzkashi. This largely lawless game is kind of a cross between polo and rugby. But instead of using a ...

* Film explores culture clash between Afghans, Westerners * Barmak does not see chance for peace any time soon * Set up centre to help young film-makers By Silvia Aloisi ROME, Oct 26 (Reuters) - ...

ROME (Reuters) - Afghan director Siddiq Barmak uses irony and grotesque scenes in "Opium War," his film about the strains between local people and Western soldiers fighting the Taliban. But he said he ...