so they have shaped afghan cinema of the past 20 years. as female stars and dramas, as directors, and as produces of award winning films. fact since the taliban reclaimed parent august 2021. everything has changed over with mamma will create cinema takes into account islamic values, national traditions and afghan culture. the radical islamic taliban has deprived women of their basic human rights. and fills are becoming tools for propaganda. is this the end of afghan cinema? ah, lethal make as we are now in exile to a dis movies we contents the mind of the peoples tooting different. a self assured movie color had established itself in afghanistan with women as major contributors . royal sadat, ah, safa cutty, me. ringback busy ah, we profile 2 of the country's most prominent female filmmakers who have been fighting for afghans cinema. for many years. we explain how afghans cinema developed into a serious film culture ah, will show how female filmmakers managed to save themselves from the taliban. since early on they've had to learn how to fight back, we'll see how they support and protect each other and how afghan cinema lives on in exile. to understand how afghanistan strong, female driven film seen developed, we go back to 1989 soviet troops leave afghanistan after 10 years of occupation. a bloody civil war begins. 4 years later, the taliban takes over the regime of presses, women and bands any form of art. in response to the september 11th, 2001 attacks the u. s. and its allies pushed back against the taliban. but the islamist extremists remain still controlling rural parts of the country. shooting films in afghanistan during this time, especially outside of the cities, is dangerous. bought, royal saddam from herat dares to do it anyway. she taught herself the basics of filmmaking through reading and learned the rest directly on set her films tell the stories of afghan women like sariah, a police officer from oh, and she wants to help a woman who has been sentenced to death by village elders for adultery in doing so, she herself comes into conflict with the powerful tribal leaders. soon after i got rid of all my number. he said we don't robinson. so he got the kind of joy oliver. i've got he heard him. i've been to target him, drop a done. well, we'll talk to him, i go it on nasha moore both for they don't, can him. the film shows how freedom and the rule of law are undone by tribal traditions and an extremely conservative interpretation of islam. this especially affects women who break that convention like saddam herself for whom cinema is everything with making a fellow making, not unlike it kind of walk for me it's, it's her the hall my life. she made her 1st film after afghanistan was liberated from the taliban in 2001. in her early twenties, she became one of the country's 1st female directors, a role model for many young afghan women, and a pioneer of afghan cinema. together with her sister aka documentary filmmaker and her husband, a film lecturer at cobble university, she founded her own production company. the royal film house has been assured she has produced more than 30 documentary films and television shows, showing the injustices in the lives of afghan women and their strength and courage . in her latest work, she profiles for women's rights activists. and they will try to their rights and i wouldn't and one, often this has to be one united country with all of us. all women, all men the van above grandest on of always in the headline of the news everywhere. they are just only a victims. and also during the position that the always the man and political man did give, this is a decision for them to this movies for sure. we can, we can change even in the mind of the peoples, to, to think differently about that in 2013, to make these films accessible to afghanistan's female audience. so that created the herat international women's film festival. it became a meeting point for the country's female filmmakers including director sarah curry . me kelly me was born in turan as only lived in afghanistan since 2012. a family fled from afghanistan to run before she was born. all my life. why was it a few g somehow refugee and eat on a few you know slovakia and i didn't have this feeling of bringing home very much with me. these experience, my return, tough, honest, on, gave me a very unique her feeling of being in home. can i me studied at the film academy in bratislava, where she earned her doctorate. but she wants to shoes and tell her stories right here in cobbled. i wanted to be a storyteller of my own people, especially women of afghanistan. i wanted to see in 1st hand, what is going on inside my country. ah, key 3 women are at the center of her latest film. ah, the women, strangers. but they share a common destiny. hey, this is nebraska but evidently covered because the, the numbers that i, mr. bishop, of them are privileged or not all 3 of them. priscilla, the patriarchal structures in their country. this is the look into the daily lives of millions of afghan women ranita car. amy traveled throughout the country for 2 years, collecting stories, private donations, financed to shoot. and an iranian production company eventually covered the rest of the production costs. but she doesn't just want to tell stories. she also wants to promote cinema in afghanistan in 2019, she won the bid to become president of the state film organisation act and film. becoming the 1st woman to head the institution of can film supports new productions and houses the country's entire film archive. at least what's left of it. afghan cinema is once again suffering from the taliban oppression. he is the new president of afghan film installed by the taliban. i must have been in the films that have been produced in the past 2 decades. have been contrary to his lama tradition miliano novel. and what was that accurate from the beginning at can cinema has been shaped by regime changes in the country, but has survived even the greatest of upheavals. p. the country's 1st cinema opened in cobble in 1934. 1 of the 1st african film production tells the story of a young villager with soft images in the 19th sixty's, cinemark canister, at least in the cities, experienced an upswing estate film organisation was founded and several movie theaters were built. the 1st kind of films made that if you, in the 1980s at that time, afghanistan was under soviet occupation, cinema was encouraged, but also controlled. and since it, a lot of money was invested, making elaborate films like epic of love, possible. with the 1st tell about role came a dark era, many films were destroyed and cinema was banned, bought after the islamists were asked it in 2001, a new era began. movie theaters reopened, filmmakers could pursue their passions. low budget productions in bollywood style enjoyed great popularity that was shot in small film studios like this one in july labatte in the northeast of the country. afghan filmmakers like cedric, the mark had taken the international cinema seen by storm. his feature film osama one, several awards ah, and there are plenty of women besides royal saddam and sa ha, carry me for example, shout about no said at all. madame connie they all want to tell the country stories. again, international recognition at film festivals. the tele bands return to power marks another difficult time the emerging cultural scene and its main players are in danger. on august 15th 2021. the taliban recaptured the capital. cobble islamist had been advancing from province to province. since nato forces began withdrawing. hundreds of thousands of people desperately tried to flee. these were days of fear for sarah carini as well . were the shark media stuff with this issue with whatever the stay or go, what other remaining escape routes vital decisions had to be made in a very short time. i knew that in my life will be in danger. if i stay and if i live alone, so my family will be in danger. so i decided to leave. i left everything behind my, my home, my apartment, my award, my dreams. every king, 2 days after the fall of cobble, her family managed to escape. royal for that is currently in the united states. she follows the news of her homeland from afar. suddenly i see that the taliban captured though, had ot city. and after 2 days, the capture all the cowboy and other cities it was and believe about like you just watching video cable and heard of uh movies. she was only gonna stay for a few weeks to prepare a directorial work for the seattle operate. mm. there she will stage a 1000 splendid sons based on the best selling novel by afghan. right? a hunted pussy any more. what washington has become her home in exile? sweetheart. moment for us. my generation like me read the start from 0 and we war hard. during this 20 years. we not only used a shipment, but it was our land. our country did as a people died did as a people. they don't have it when they don't have food. ah, her colleagues soccer amy ended up in rome. after fleeing afghanistan. she received a guest professorship at a state film school. i am very grateful that i have this opportunity to share my experience as afghan filmmaker with the students that helped me to, to heal my once. my pains, ah, what will happen next in the lives of the women who stayed in afghanistan until gender segregation can be guaranteed everywhere. many will not be able to go to work. a concept is being prepared. this matter will be resolved as soon as possible to decrease appear at targeting women. female afghans can only study if they have no contact with men. secondary girls schools are closed. women are no longer allowed to drive alone for long distances and no longer travel by plane without the company of their husbands. the decree that women must cover at least their heads and faces in public, sparks protests across the country. but even so, more and more women are disappearing from public spaces. ah, almost all afghan women share the experience that men determine what goes on in their own lives. being a woman in such a traditional and patriarchal society and especially an independent woman, it is, it is not easy. it was that one of the biggest, the struggles that i, i had under the taliban. she risked her life. now she wants to support those who have not yet managed to escape. she makes a call to cobble as yet what is the situation to women go outside or not at all? how are they being treated mamma thus far? i wish they me not that unfortunately i no longer have any optimism at all. i see to produce is an artist and former director of the legendary arrianna and cobble the 2nd notice cinema in the country. as guns fossil christening by the last that was my brother and i left home to get something important by on my pan overall, how can i make a boy the shot of my brother was driving it and i was in the back of the car about a mouthful of us, the key as phenomena in the senate in the taliban stopped us and questioned my brother in law, which that they asked who he was taking with him by mom thought was thought he said, this is my sister madame of work. but the taliban replied he has a how do i know if that is your sister or some one else? yes to you yet. another pharmacy hardy. the ceo has to be danny. yeah, not even a brother and sister have the right to go out or buy anything without being bothered to our town, but a woman has no right to have a job that a so she has to stay close to home are now white wash. she has to do the cooking and house work. there was nothing else lab by the quantity that we're not gonna hate sada promises to help us eat a flea afghanistan. they plan to stay in touch. royal sadat can relate to a seat is experiences of living under the taliban. she often encountered resistance in her family as well. it was very hard for me for my father's plan to stand by the i'm doing and of my uncle for a long time. he don't came to our home because when i go for shooting, lamb is a lot can i can have the courage to make films against all odds. was depicted in this documentary from 2008 shot by spanish director alba. so taura, it tells how it royal saddam explores and breaks through the narrow limits of patriarchal society. but the one sided on a little less than that, you can then i left him, it was in the you may get as in the make on them on the ha, ha ha, did each and on who she had a good, a good bit of a push i ambush, i've to run it with me on a little. i thought of them all the max of a highly muscular group by the sample of them on the quantity. but with this a month, a little molly javin have a so my desire to even get and says, my royal saddam and i'll but so tara, have since been closely connected privately and professionally to day satori is the co producer of. so that's new film, a forgotten history, filming on location in afghanistan had to be cancels for giving up is out of the question that you sent me all the the so i'm not sure because we also have the ocean mission in a studio room right now. the cool, so they are in different county, their quick test of female at axis the actor, the in defend location, different country. and the situation is also not clear that they can travel or not . this is a hot part of their product shadow. for this movie, people are fighting to keep afghan cinema alive from abroad. but what about in afghanistan itself? the taliban claim treats the country's film history with respect. they say there will be no destruction of fillmore bands on pitches this time around. the archive of afghan film is very important and has historical significance. it's completely secured in the presidential palace. no one has access there who could damage it, was it sounds hopeful, but the fact is all film productions around the country have been cancelled and cinema's a closed november 2021 to cree, prohibits the television, screening of films in series featuring women or any content that contradicts sharia law. ah, only propaganda videos of produce. now, even though most afghan directors have now left the country, their strongest works of the past 2 decades remain against cinema lives on abroad. as seen here at the do hawk international film festival in the autonomous region of kurdistan, it's a refuge for curds who are subject to oppression and censorship. in many countries, cinema plays a special role here as a sign of solidarity. the festival dedicates a separate section to ask and cinema sarah her. amy is also showing her latest film here. see, now mine is a somehow our only for him to fight against the blue tile. it is. the program also includes award winning kurdish productions such as the opening film who took a deep insight into a rocky society, marked by patriarchal structures and corruption and notes in here. the president of the international jury is one of the most important directors in afghan film history. ah, louise jack's, he got more and more boston or cinema, undoubtedly reflects all events that we experience. it mirrors our lives larger. that's why afghan cinema, as well as kurdish cinema, was about the pain of the population throughout history. the was polluted thought he spoke with his most successful film bar, mac will count the dramatic ears during the televisions. first reign of terror in the late 19 ninety's. he used amateur actors, women were not allowed to work only the house alone at this time. those without my family members, wrists, starvation, a single mother has no choice but to disguise her daughter as a boy, osama becomes her name. but when she is forced to attend religious classes, her disguise is discovered, ah, the sharia court decides her fate. my book and i, did you mother the j? well gardens at a mother toyota of level. com. okay now i i am in 2004. the duke bar mark received a golden globe for this film among other awards. he's convinced that the creativity of afghan direct is, is a result of the difficult production conditions that they face in his country. sought the film us. i've seen a while, you get all the most of our film makers see, especially the young filmmakers, don't have producers o w t, a yolanda. so they try to find various other ways of turning their ideas and concepts for cinema and to reality, all on the shoulder. that's, you know, mobile to, well, what it was in each one of these filmmakers are internationally recognized, but have been forced to live and work far away from their homeland. unfortunately, this is a common fate for many of can directors, including mario ghani, the daughter of former african president, ashura connie, she lives in the us her phil deal with the lesser known chapters of afghanistan's history. her best known work is about 5 unfinished films made during communist rule and half gonna stand films that stand somewhere between us and propaganda. the movie shows what the filmmakers put up with in order to be able to work, for example, shooting with real ammunition, because blanks were not available to run muslims. like if i make them, you know, i'm leisure actually sort of with them is something called unsettled the i'm on, i'm on the one assumption, hold me something that love and go director charbonneau said had fled to hamburg after the taliban took over her 1st feature film premiered in current in 2016 and in her 2nd work which won multiple awards, she managed to show afghanistan in a different light. a 15 year old dreams of a career as a bollywood star on the streets of 19 eighties. cobble. ah hale. ah. the filmmakers of afghanistan and even more so the female directors a used to struggling in order to make their films, they processed their hardships through their work. when we succeed to get out from the airport, i decided to write about it than i share it with the producer. and i told her that i want to make film about those hours. it is about her, our struggles to get to a requisition flight. the taller bon limited filmmakers or artists, it doesn't mean that we are going to we're to stop. we will continue all. and i will tell our stories from different perspective napkins. leading filmmakers a deeply rooted in the countries film history with global recognition and networks . they continue to shape and developers, and many of them are not willing to give up against cinema, will live on an act. and filmmakers have shown that they won't be stopped even by the taliban. where you moved by our story about afghan filmmakers. tell us what you think in the comments and hit the subscribe button to dig deeper with us. ah ah, with a beginning of a story that moves us and takes us along for the ride. it's all about perspective. culture information. this is the w. w. made from mines eco, africa. you can look good and be sustainable. we are trying to construct the idea of what waste means when it comes to test when it comes to fashion. our design is just our to our, to a ditch every into 12. 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