A filmmaker explores his family story in Paikar and inspires his father to open up about life in Afghanistan and then Iran, while navigating the COVID pandemic.
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The Secret Reading Club of Kabul brings three young women together to read the diary of Anne Frank and consider their situation in Afghanistan.
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Efforts to repatriate artifacts and artworks stolen from Afghanistan invite wider considerations of cultural history in Aisha Jamal's The Theft.
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Highlights from IDFA 2025 include documentaries like A Fox Under a Pink Moon, Synthetic Sincerity, Flood, All My Sisters, and Memory.
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Watch the first trailer for In the Room, director Brishkay Ahmed's documentary about the resilience of Afghan women who fight for equality.
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Writing Hawa examines the plight of women's rights in Afghanistan as one filmmaker observes her mother's quest for literacy.
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Powerful documentary The Last Ambassador observes Manizha Bakhtari, Afghanistan's only female ambassador, as she fights for women's voices back home.
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In Hollywoodgate, Ibrahim Nash'at observes the Taliban's return to power for one year following the U.S. troops withdrawal of August 2021.
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Four women lead peace talks and conversations about women's rights leading up to the withdrawal of American troops in The Sharp Edge of Peace.
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An interview with An Unfinished Journey directors Aeyliya Husain and Amie Williams on their documentary about Afghan women fighting to women's rights.
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