Afghanistan Movies

A New Psychological Documentary About Children

Inside a confined cube, chaotic shadow dancers move without rhythm or order. A mysterious figure, seen only through fragments of a face, begins...

A gullible man, once manipulated, rises with clarity and vengeance, determined to dismantle the liars who used him

Hamid, a rich car salesman from Kabul, is plagued by nightmares. Are these just figments of his imagination or is he hiding some dark secrets from...

Sameer is a middle-class young man, who lives with his younger brother. He doesn't have much except a big house left by his parents. He is sick of...

In March 2001, the ruling Taliban destroyed Afghanistan's foremost tourist attraction, the 1600 year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan. This film follows the...

A woman is raped. Instead going after her attacker, the law and society imprison the victim.

What happens when you can no longer practice the profession that is part of your identity? You Can’t Stop the Music is a portrait from...

Two men travel a shared road. One acts with honesty and gratitude, the other with deceit and disgrace. Though their destination is identical, their...

Azim, an afghan refugee, who works at the municipality at night, lives in Tehran along with his family. Being the head of entire family, he has to...

An Afghan man and his wife attempt to cross the border to reach Europe illegally. After many difficulties and dangers, it is time to give birth...

For ten years, the journalists of the Etilaat Roz have been making the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Kabul—entirely transparent,...

The story of an old, lonesome talisman-writer, who earns his money with prophecy and has already lost the hope for acknowledgement in life, but...

Mahbouba Seraj had what every other Afghan wanted. A US passport and protected passage through the frenzied masses that had descended on Kabul...

An Afghan mother and a US filmmaker, connected through one stray bullet, forge a surprising friendship amidst America's longest war.

As a refugee, Homayoon Zarian has been in Afghanistan for eight years now and his future looks bleak. His situation and that of many others shows how...

There is a suitor for a little Afghan girl called Nazpari from Germany. Up to that point, no one has seen him. When the day comes, Nazpari...

Annie Goldson and Kay Ellmers’ doco, expanded from the film they made for Maori Television, takes a timely look at New Zealand’s military...

Shooting on location in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, director Salar Pashtoonyar uses a thought-provoking yet powerfully humane hybrid of...