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Afghan Film Festival In Australia
The Afghan film festival in Australia was established in 2019 as an annual showcase of Afghan cinema in Australia. It takes place in Canberra and is jointly hosted by the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the ANU Film Group, at the Australian National University. 2019 First Afghan Film Festival The inaugural Afghan film festival took place between the 15th and 21 November 2019 and was held at the ANU Kambri Precinct Cultural Centre. The festival was opened by Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Australia, Wahidullah Waissi. The Afghan Embassy’s co-hosting of the event was part of its commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Afghan independence, and concurrently the 50th anniversary of official diplomatic relations with Australia. In attendance were diplomats, officials, Afghan filmmakers and ANU students. Numerous classic and contemporary Afghan films were screened, including many directed by Afghan women, as well as various documentaries about Afghanistan and Afgha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghan Film
Afghan Film also known as Afghan Film Organization (AFO) is Afghanistan's state-run film company, established in 1968. The current president is Sahraa Karimi, who attained a PhD in Cinema from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and is its first female president. It is also a film archive. Many of its contents were destroyed by the Taliban, although some staff members saved valuable films risking their own lives. A number of rescue and archival efforts were chronicled in the 2015 documentary '' A Flickering Truth''. An eight-day film festival was launched on August 3, 2019, showcasing 100 films around different cinemas in the country in celebration of the country's 100th anniversary of independence. In 2019, the documentary ''The Forbidden Reel'', which details the history of Afghan Cinema through interviews and archives was released. Directed by Afghan-Canadian filmmaker, Ariel Nasr, the film premiered internationally at IDFA 2019, and won the ''Rogers Audience Award'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osama (film)
''Osama'' ( prs, اُسامه, Osamah) is a 2003 drama film made in Afghanistan by Siddiq Barmak. The film follows a preteen girl living in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime who disguises herself as a boy, Osama, to support her family. It was the first film to be shot entirely in Afghanistan since 1996, when the Taliban regime banned the creation of all films. The film is an international co-production between companies in Afghanistan, the Netherlands, Japan, Ireland, and Iran. Etymology Although the title of the film highlights an allegorical relevance to Osama bin Laden, there is no further similarity. The film takes place during the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, which is especially repressive for women. Plot In Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, women must wear burqas to cover themselves and are banned from working outside the home. This causes difficulty for a family consisting of only an unnamed young girl, her mother, and her grandmother, whose male relatives were killed in b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jirga (film)
''Jirga'' (, meaning "meeting") is a 2018 Australian drama film written and directed by Benjamin Gilmour and produced by John Maynard. It stars Sam Smith as a former Australian soldier returning to Afghanistan to seek forgiveness from the family of a man he killed while serving in the war. The film was shot under extreme circumstances, in dangerous locations and with assistance from the local people of Afghanistan. Deemed too politically divisive to be produced in Pakistan the film moved production at the last minute to Afghanistan and shot in one of the most dangerous regions in the world, Kandahar Province. Gilmour sought to create a film which showed the beauty of the Afghan country and people as well as highlight the detrimental impact of the War in Afghanistan on Western and Afghan people. He also wanted to create a film in which line between truth and fiction is blurred. Gilmour stated he wishes to "make an audience feel like they're not quite sure if they're watching a docu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atiq Rahimi
Atiq Rahimi ( fa, عتیق رحیمی) (born 26 February 1962 in Kabul) is a French-Afghan writer and filmmaker. Life Atiq Rahimi was born in 1962 in Kabul to a senior public servant and attended high school in Lycée Esteqlal. Following the Soviet invasion, Rahimi fled Afghanistan, taking refuge in Pakistan for a year and then relocating to France in 1985 after receiving political asylum. On completion of his studies at the Sorbonne, Rahimi joined a Paris-based production company where he produced seven documentaries for French television, as well as several commercials. Taking time off in the late 1990s, Rahimi embarked on his first writing project. His 2000 Dari/Persian book, ''Earth and Ashes'', was an instant bestseller in Europe and South America. A movie based on this book, directed by Rahimi, was awarded the ''Prix du Regard vers l'Avenir'' at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The film was featured in 50 festivals, winning a total of 25 awards including the one at Canne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Patience Stone (film)
''The Patience Stone'' ( fa, سنگ صبور) is a 2012 French-Afghan war drama film directed by Atiq Rahimi, based on his 2008 novel of the same title. Written by Jean-Claude Carrière and the director, the film stars Golshifteh Farahani, Hamid Djavadan, Massi Mrowat, and Hassina Burgan. The film was selected as the Afghan entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, although it was not nominated. Golshifteh Farahani was nominated for the Most Promising Actress award at the 39th César Awards. The film is set in Afghanistan and filmed in-country and in areas of Morocco that resembled Soviet-era housing in Kabul. It was produced with participation from the French Ministry of Culture (Ministère de la Culture), Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, and multiple independent film production companies. The U.S. release was distributed by Sony Picture Classics. Plot The movie and the book is based on old Persian Mythology, Sang-e Sabour سنگ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roya Sadat
Roya Sadat (born 1983) is an Afghan film producer and director. She was the first woman director in the history of Afghan cinema in the post-Taliban era, and ventured into making feature films and documentaries on the theme of injustice and restrictions imposed on women. Following the fall of the Taliban regime in the country, she made her debut feature film ''Three Dots''. For this film she received six of nine awards which included as best director and best film. In 2003,A Letter to the President her must famous film that received many international awards, she and her sister Alka Sadat established the Roya Film House and under this banner produced more than 30 documentaries and feature films and TV series . She is now involved to direct opera of Thousand Splinded Sun to Seatel opera and she is during pre production of her 2nd feature film Forgotten History''. Biography Roya Sadat was born in Herat, Afghanistan in 1983, at the time of the Russian war. She studied law and polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Letter To The President
''A Letter to the President'' is a 2017 Afghan drama film directed by Roya Sadat. It was selected as the Afghan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot Soraya, a low-level government official, is imprisoned when she defends a woman from village lords. Behind bars, she writes the Afghan President for help. Cast * Leena Alam as Soraya * Aziz Deldar as Behzad See also * List of submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Afghan submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Afghanistan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 2002, following the fall of the country's previous Taliban government. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture ... References External links * 2017 films 2017 drama films Dari-language films Afghan drama films {{2010s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahrbanoo Sadat
Shahrbanoo Sadat (born in 1991) is an Afghan filmmaker born in Tehran, Iran. Life and career Sadat grew up in Tehran and a remote community in central Afghanistan. She studied documentary filmmaking at the Kabul workshop of Ateliers Varan , and began her career working in cinema vérité. Her first feature film, '' Wolf and Sheep'', tells the story of a village much like the one where she grew up. It won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight The Directors' Fortnight (french: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) is an independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival. It was started in 1969 by the French Directors Guild after the events of May 1968 resulted in cancellation of the Cannes festiv ... in 2016. Filmography *''A smile for life'', a short documentary (2009) *''Vice Versa One'', a short fiction film (2011) * ''Not at Home'', a hybrid film (2013) *''Who wants to be the wolf?'', a short fiction film (2014) *'' Wolf and Sheep'', a feature film (2016) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Orphanage (2019 Film)
''The Orphanage'' is a 2019 Danish-Afghan drama film written and directed by Shahrbanoo Sadat. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It is the second installment in a planned pentalogy based on the unpublished diaries of Anwar Hashimi, who plays a supporting character in the film. Its prequel, '' Wolf and Sheep'', came out in 2016. It has been nominated for best film at several different film festivals, winning at an international festival. They won the Best Film award at the Reykjavik International Film Festival in 2019. Plot The film follows the 15-year-old Qodrat (Qodratollah Qadiri), who at the beginning of the movie lives on the streets of 1989 Kabul and gets by on scalping cinema tickets and peddling key rings. After being picked up from the streets he is sent to the Soviet operated juvenile detention center known as "the orphanage". Here he is one of five new arrivals, along with 14-year-old Masihullah (Masihullah Feraj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fahim Hashimy
Fahim Hashimi ( fa, فهیم هاشمی; born 27 September 1980) is an ethnic Hazara politician from Afghanistan. Between May 2019 and August 2020, Hashimy was the former Minister for Telecommunication and Information Technology. He was the second elected President of the Afghanistan Olympic Committee from 2014–2015. He had served as the acting vice-president before taking over from Mohammad Zahir Aghbar. Early life Fahim Hashimy was born on 27 September 1980 in Kabul, Afghanistan. He belongs to the Hazara ethnic group. Businesses Fahim Hashimy is one of Afghanistan's leading entrepreneurs. In 2005 he began building one of the largest logistics companies in Afghanistan, focusing on providing critical services and material resources to the Afghan Government and International Forces. In 2010 Fahim Hashimy launched, 1TV Afghanistan's second largest TV Network, the centerpiece of GroupOne, a media production and the strategic communications group MCXI. This venture is pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
