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 ...

“'Nothing is as it seems' perfectly captures the Afghanistan experience," Turkish filmmaker Gözde Kural says about her second feature, world premiering in Karlovy Vary's Crystal Globe Competition. By ...

Through the decades, downtown Kabul’s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still ...

* 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) - ...

A renowned Kabul cinema that for decades attracted the city's film fans is being demolished to make way for a shopping mall ...

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 ...