Detail

Hidden Line

Gazelle Samizay // United States // 2019 // 08:00 min

Experimental, Live Action

An Afghan American girl navigates the demands of her cultures as she wanders a surreal world, only to find herself ensnared by strange, masked figures who demand her conformity.

Yellow

Elham Ehsas // Afghanistan, England // 2023 // 12:49 min

Live Action

In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Laili enters a Kabul boutique to buy her first chadari. It quickly becomes evident that her "decision" to don the veil is the result of coercion.

The Reel

Lajaward Haqiqi // Afghanistan // 2013 // 03:34 min

Animation

How listening to music is a legitimate need of all human beings, and for the people of Afghanistan. [CW: war]

Hills and Mountains

Salar Pashtoonyar // Afghanistan // 2022 // 08:00 min

Documentary, Live Action

An Afghan woman delves deep into her experiences that forced her to the edge of her society.

The Red Bicycle

Fazila Amiri // Canada, Afghanistan // 2020 // 12:30 min

Live Action

Set in contemporary Afghanistan, a red bicycle opens two windows into the world of two Afghan women. [CW: violence , sexism, war]

Colorless

Abdul Hamid Mandgar // Afghanistan // 2020 // 06:55 min

Live Action

Narges is a girl with a passion for dancing. Whenever she dances, her brother beats her, until he realizes that she is dancing for their mother. [CW: Gewalt, Sexismus]

Death to Freedom

Mohammad Nasir // Afghanistan // 2018 // 03:50 min

Animation

A Portrait into the complexities of war and its effects on Afghanistan's ethnic groups and its civilisation.

Filmorgh

Elephant-Bird

Amir Masoud Soheili // Afghanistan, Iran // 2018 // 15:00 min

Live Action

The last wish of an old Afghan man is to give his "elephant-bird" (turkey) to his grandchild. [CW: violence, death]

Earthquake

Said Mohsen Hossaini // Afghanistan // 2022 // 05:10 min

Animation

Her mother died the day she was born. Her father was always at war. She was eleven years old when her father forced her to marry an old man.

Labour

Aria Azizi // Germany, Afghanistan // 2018 // 14:55 min

Live Action

On the run. The contractions of pregnant Darya are getting stronger and stronger. The only one who could help her is the doctor Rahman. But Darya's husband won't allow a man to touch his wife. [CW: birth, migration trauma]

Why Are You Sad, Mother?

Parwana Haydar // Germany // 2023 // 05:35 min

Experimental

A mother is lost in memories of the past, of a life once lived and a daughter that is left to catch up with a world she was never a part of.