These two female filmmakers express the injustice they've experienced in their home countries in contrasting genres: a ...

Are there any good men in Afghanistan?"I do believe there are good men, but I also believe that we need more good men in the ...

“Bodyguard of Lies,” a documentary examining the deceit that drove the longest war in American history, takes its title from a Winston Churchill line: “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should ...

Berlin Opener 'No Good Men' Director Shahrbanoo Sadat’ on Making Afghanistan’s First Film Featuring an Onscreen Kiss (And a Vibrator).

“Director Najiba Noori films her mother Hawa and her niece Zahra in their aspirations to emancipate themselves from patriarchal traditions,” says a synopsis of the doc that is world premiering at IDFA ...

Natalie Halla's film, premiering at doc fest CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, follows Manizha Bakhtari, her Daughters program and other work since the Taliban took power in 2021. By Georg Szalai Global Business ...

“Retrograde” tells the story of the United States’ final months of its 20-year war in Afghanistan. In the film Heineman, whose “Cartel Land” was nominated for an Oscar in 2016, embedded with the U.S.

Luke Basso has been producing documentary short films on veterans and military history since he was in high school. He recently returned from Afghanistan and tells WAMC North Country Bureau Chief Pat ...