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
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in Cinema from the
Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava
The Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava ( sk, Vysoká škola múzických umení v Bratislave, abbr. VŠMU) is a university founded on June 9, 1949.
The university consists of three faculties:
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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
''A Flickering Truth'' is a 2015 New Zealand documentary film written and directed by Pietra Brettkelly. It follows the attempts by Ibrahim Arify to restore the Afghan Film archives in Kabul following the Taliban capture of the city. It worl ...
''. 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
''The Forbidden Reel'' is a 2019 Canadian documentary film, directed by Ariel Nasr. The film profiles the cinema of Afghanistan through a history of the Afghan Film Organization.
The film premiered in 2019 at the International Documentary Film Fe ...
'', which details the history of Afghan Cinema through interviews and archives was released. Directed by Afghan-Canadian filmmaker,
Ariel Nasr
Ariel Nasr is a Canadian documentary film director. , the film premiered internationally at
IDFA 2019, and won the ''Rogers Audience Award'' at
Hot Docs 2020.
See also
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Cinema of Afghanistan
Cinema was introduced in Afghanistan at the beginning of the 20th century. Political troubles slowed the indusry over the years. However, numerous Pashto cinema, Pashto and Dari films have been made both inside and outside Afghanistan throughout ...
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List of film archives
This is a list of film archives and cinematheques. Film archives collect, restore, investigate and conserve audiovisual content like films, documentaries, television programs and newsreel footage. Often, every country has its own film archive to ...
References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023402/http://www.afghanmagazine.com/2004_07/photoessay/afghanfilm.shtml
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Cinema of Afghanistan
Film archives in Asia
Archives in Afghanistan
Mass media companies established in 1968
1968 establishments in Afghanistan
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