Kabul, 1978. Amir, Sohn eines angesehenen Afghanen, und Hassan, Sohn seines Hausdieners, sind Freunde. Doch das Band zerbricht, nachdem Amir Hassan nicht zu Hilfe kommt, als dieser von anderen Jugendlichen grausam erniedrigt und vergewaltigt wird. Nach dem Einmarsch der Roten Armee fliehen Amir und sein Vater in die USA. Jahre später holt Amir, mittlerweile verheiratet und ein erfolgreicher Schriftsteller, die Vergangenheit ein, und bietet sich ihm die Chance zur Wiedergutmachung und seelischen Befreiung.
In Afghanistan herrscht Krieg. Eine schöne junge Frau (Golshifteh Farahani) kümmert sich in einem heruntergekommenen Schlafzimmer um ihren Mann. Damit dieser wieder aus dem Koma erwacht, rezitiert sie 99 Tage lang je einen der 99 Namen Allahs im Atemrhythmus des Komatösen. Nach zwei Wochen verwandelt sich das Gebet in ein Geständnis und die Frau spricht über ihr erlittenes Leid, ihre Frustrationen, ihre Einsamkeit, Wünsche, Ängste und Sorgen. Dann verrät sie ihm ihr teuer gehütetes Geheimnis, macht ihn unfreiwillig zu ihrem „Stein der Geduld“ und wälzt ihren ganzen Unmut auf ihn ab.
After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
Korengal picks up where Restrepo left off; the same men, the same valley, the same commanders, but a very different look at the experience of war.
The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced persons in Kabul—struggles to balance his dreams of being the first from his tribe to join the Afghan National Army with the responsibilities of starting a family. Even as Shaista’s love for Benazir is palpable, the choices he must make to build a life with her have profound consequences.
Ein Straßenjunge im Kabul der 1908er Jahre wächst in einem Kinderheim auf.
Seit der Tierfilmer Dieter Plage in einem von Graham Dorrington konstruierten Luftschiff tödlich verunglückte, quält sich der englische Ingenieur mit Schuldgefühlen. Werner Herzog begleitet ihn bei einer riskanten Expedition mit dem weiter entwickelten Modell des damaligen Unglücksschiffs, einem heliumbetriebenen Mini-Zeppelin. Das außergewöhnliche Flugobjekt gewährt Einblicke in den Kronenbereich des Urwalds, eines aufgrund seiner Unzugänglichkeit weitgehend unerforschten Lebensraumes. Die Reise wird für Dorrington eine Konfrontation mit der Vergangenheit und gleichzeitig die Chance zur Verarbeitung seines Traumas.
Baadshah Khan falls in love with Benazir, a member of a rival clan who has defeated him in a game of buzkashi. Benazir will not marry him unless he brings back the head of her father's killer, Habibullah, from India. He is successful, but he must return to India. He is then tragically separated from Benazir through a series of incidents that are only resolved years later with the arrival of his daughter, Menhdi, and his release from prison.
The story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write and skateboard in Kabul.
About a hundred kilometers away from Kabul, Salim Shaheen, the most popular and prolific actor-director-producer in Afghanistan, comes to show some of his 110 films and to shoot the 111th in the process.
During the 1990 World Cup, two young Palestinian boys are on a quest for “Maradona’s legs”; the last missing sticker that they need in order to complete their world cup album and win a free Atari.
Der Venezianer Marco Polo macht sich zusammen mit seinem Vater und seinem Onkel auf dien Weg nach China, um dort dem mächtigen Kublai Khan eine Friedensbotschaft von Papst Gregor V. zu überbringen. Auf halben Weg geraten sie in einen Konflikt zwischen arabischen Wüstenstämmen und werden getrennt. Marco verbringt einige Zeit als Gefangener in einem zu einem Palast umfunktionierten Höhlensystem, wird schließlich aber von Emir Alaou befreit.
Armed only with their cameras, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning conflict Journalist Mike Boettcher, and his son, Carlos, provide unprecedented access into the longest war in U.S. history.
Am 11.9.2001 verübte Al-Quaida den bisher größten Terroranschlag der Geschichte. Schon lange zuvor hatte die CIA den Terror-Boss Osama Bin Laden im Visier. Zwanzig Jahre dauerte die Suche, bis ein US-Spezialkommando ihn im Mai 2011 in Pakistan tötete. Die Dokumentation lässt CIA-Agenten zu Wort kommen, für die die Jagd auf Bin Laden zur Lebensaufgabe wurde. Freizügig sprechen sie über ihre Arbeit, Zweifel, Widerstände und die umstrittenen Folterpraktiken im Anti-Terror-Krieg. - Beeindruckende, Emmy-gekrönte Dokumentation über das CIA-Team, das Osama Bin Laden jagte.
In rural Afghanistan, people are storytellers who make up and tell each other tales of mystery and imagination to explain the world in which they live. The shepherd children own the mountains and, although no adults are around, they know the rules; they know that boys and girls are not allowed to be together. The boys practice with their slings to fight wolves. The girls smoke secretly and play at getting married, dreaming of finding a husband soon. They gossip about Sediqa; she’s eleven years old and an outsider. The girls think she is cursed. Qodrat, also eleven years old, becomes the subject of gossip when his mother remarries an old man with two wives. Qodrat roams alone in the most isolated parts of the mountains, where he meets Sediqa and they become friends.
What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of war.
Der raue, abgelegene Nordosten Afghanistans ist eine Hochgebirgslandschaft mit Gipfeln bis zu 7.500 Metern. Es ist das Grenzgebiet zu Tadschikistan, Pakistan und China. In dieser Region verdienen sich nomadisch lebende Kinderbanden etwas Geld mit den Überbleibseln der Kriege. - Die Doku-Fiktion (2013)wurde auf dem Sundance Festival ausgezeichnet.
Three interwoven stories of loneliness and isolation that centre around Janan, a woman from Afghanistan who travels to the UK for artificial insemination. Complications arise when William, a medical sciences student working in the clinic switches the donor's semen for his own.
Somewhere in the desert, a little boy is plunged by force into an intimidating and completely foreign new world: the world of camel racing. Will the distant hope of seeing his mother again give him the strength to overcome his fears and find his place in this hostile environment?
There are seven stories of seven women. Though each has her own individual story, none had the chance of finding love having lost control of their destiny through either forced marriage or rape.
Three Afghan women from different social background, living in Kabul, are facing a big challenge in their lives. Hava, a traditional pregnant woman whom no one cares about, is living with her father- and mother-in-law. Her only joy is talking to the baby in her belly. Maryam, an educated TV news reporter, is about to get a divorce from her unfaithful husband that finds out she is pregnant. Ayesha, an 18-year-old girl, accepts to marry her cousin because she is pregnant from her boyfriend who disappears after hearing her pregnancy news. Therefore, she needs to find a doctor to get an abortion and regain her virginity. Each of them has to solve her problem by herself for the first time.
The Interpreters follows the lives of Iraqi and Afghan interpreters, and the American veterans they worked with. In many cases, interpreters face danger in their countries because of their affiliation with the US war effort. This is the story of how they are rebuilding their lives.
The story of Masoud, who is trying to emigrate to Europe to make a better life for himself, his mother and his fiancé. After embarking on a difficult and dangerous immigration journey with his best friend, Masoud meets a pregnant doctor and an old man on the way and they band together. Having to flee because of war and terror, Masoud tries to reach his goal with a hopeful but painful journey.
In post-Taliban Kabul, two lost children, brother and sister whose parents are in prison, try to survive every day by scavenging for food. At night, they join their imprisoned mother.
The story of four kids in Afghanistan whose lives changed dramatically after US troops completed their withdrawal and the Taliban swept to power.
Started in 2018, the project – comprised of 11 segments by filmmakers from all around the world – reflects on the intertwined relationship between human society and nature that is aggravated by climate change on multiple scales, hinting at possible solutions.
Kevin Macdonald’s THE LAST SONG FROM KABUL immerses us in the devastating reality of Afghanistan after the Taliban occupation: music has been banned. Forced into hiding, a group of young musicians attempt a harrowing escape to Portugal. Will they be able to find their voices again?
In den 70er Jahren war das Kino Aryub das eleganteste Lichtspielhaus in Kabul. Es waren Zeiten der Freiheit und Freude, die weggefegt wurden von Bürgerkrieg und Gewaltherrschaft .Nur dank des alten Vorführers Naser überlebte das Aryub inmitten der Zerstörung. Eine Gruppe junger Studenten beschließt, den Cineasten zu unterstützen und den Zauber von "Kabullywood" zurückzuholen. Voller Enthusiasmus beginnen sie, das Kino zu renovieren - doch das Projekt läuft nicht nach Plan und hat mächtige Gegner.
From Afghanistan, little is known but a few cliches, the word Taliban, and a war that seems to have never ceased since the Soviet era and its new turn taken since 2001. A country devastated in a state of permanent conflict, a population deeply marked: how to do it justice? Equipped with her only camera, reconnecting with her beginnings on documentaries, the director embraces the beautiful ambition to reach the intimate heart of the country.
Khatera, a 23 year old Afghan woman, is a victim of sexual abuse from her father. She tells her story publicly on national TV, seeking punishment for her perpetrator and shedding light onto the faulty Afghan judicial system.