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- Dar-Badar is a human story of displacement, refuge, dreams, reality, success, failure, resilience, challenges, co-incidences and life altering experiences. Dar-Badar is a Farsi and Urdu word also used in Hindi. It literally means from 'Door to Door' and used to signify someone who has no Home, one who is roaming one place to another, hoping for a Refuge. In simple words- Homeless or Displaced. It's a story of two strangers displaced from home, who meet in a foreign city which is nobody's home. A story lived through the travelling eyes of an afghan driver displaced from his motherland and an Indian actor searching for his identity, how history, art and cinema brings them together leaving an ever lasting impact on each other before they bid good bye.
- Award winning director Moniere travels with Marcus Patrick to remote and distant places through out the world to find answers to questions that many have sought after for millenniums on how to attain higher levels of consciousness.
- A sixteen year old Afghan American discovers that her granny is a witch. Little did the family know that granny ain't an ordinary witch practicing black magic, but - The Zen Master intercepts to save Ziba and her family, or does he?
- Haunted by combat action in Afghanistan, a soldier suffering from PTSD returns to her life in NYC as a dancer. As she discovers her world ripped from under her, she must find a way to prevent her demons from pushing her to the brink of destroying everything.
- Zahra's biggest dream is to gain education and become a midwife. But since her father Reza is already looking forward to marry her off as soon as she reaches the puberty, and believes that going to school is a shame for the girl of her age, she would have to struggle a lot to make her dream come true. Neither she nor her father expects the shame to fall on the family, after Zahra is being sexually assaulted on her way from school and then forced by the village elders into marriage with the culprit, as per customary law. Her decision to elope will put Reza in debts for years and push his elder son, Zaker, to reach for extreme means, resulting in the tragedy they could never expect. The story - set up in a remote village of Afghanistan - is a call for action to put the end to discrimination against girls and respect their rights, including right to education, reasoning that education of girls turns out to be the best investment of the community.
- Sabira, an Afghan young woman, has to flee from her hometown in Kabul to a decaying flat in a slum of Pakistan. She lives there with another girl and they both share their traumatic experiences while searching for a safer place.
- The golden valley of Bamyan, Afghanistan is once again on the edge of a great change. Skiing has been introduced to the ancient mountain city, sparking an unlikely yet joyful athletic revolution. Two teenage potato farmers from rival ethnic groups vie for the crown of an exhilarating ski race, led by an Olympic-hopeful local coach who sees a deeper truth in the sport as a tool for building camaraderie and resiliency within the community. But the stakes of those lessons become existential when they endure the shocking collapse of their country to the Taliban, displacing many across the globe as refugees, and forcing them all to face a future they could never have dreamed of. CHAMPIONS OF THE GOLDEN VALLEY is both an inspiring sports fable and a portrait of people in the midst of profound transition -- parallel stories converging to explore what it means to be a champion, in all its forms.
- Four young strangers have come together to take on the challenge of summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro. They do not have a common religion, culture, or language, but they are all survivors of war. The week long journey to the summit is more than just an ascension. It is about pushing physical boundaries and breaking through psychological ones. They will have to face their inner demons and trauma, and in many ways find strength they did not know they had.
- A cinematographic essay that centers around the region of the Bosnian-Croatian border near Velika Kladusa, and explores questions of displacement, violence and also everyday life and coincidence. It is about scars that break open, war memories that are awakened, profound encounters between people. A kaleidoscope of landscape and fury.
- Forced to flee their country after the Taliban take-over in 2021, four Afghan women leaders struggle to keep the world's attention on the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan, while coming to terms with what it means to have their power usurped and two decades of progress dismantled. From their distant exile-countries these four female leaders - past parliamentarians, ministers and journalists - watch the Taliban strip women and girls of the right to be educated, to work and to participate in society. No longer in positions of influence, they are forced to reinvent themselves to continue the fight for a free and just Afghanistan. When the world's attention has turned to the next headline and even the greatest superpower has admitted defeat, can these women succeed?
- An Afghan mother and a US filmmaker, connected through one stray bullet, forge a surprising friendship amidst America's longest war.
- Teenage immigrant pursues Muay Thai dream, combating injustice beyond the ring.
- Three members of an extended Afghan family start their lives over in Iran as refugees, unaware they face a decades-long struggle ahead to be "at home".
- When Kabul fell to the Taliban in August of 2021, thousands of Afghans flocked to the airport and tens of thousands more waited in desperation for a chance to flee. Those who made it onto planes in the early days were scattered, and a small number landed, incongruously, at a luxury compound for guests of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. "Starting From Zero" follows the stunning journeys of three of those refugees as they seek to begin again.
- Immediately after the US pullout from Afghanistan, Taliban forces occupied the Hollywood Gate complex, which is claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul.
- After the fall of Kabul in August 2021, Rohid, a young Afghan refugee in Paris, has to find work to send money to his mother, who is being extorted and threatened with death by the Taliban.
- During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.
- Four rejected asylum seekers relive their reasons for fleeing their home countries and question the core of the asylum process itself.
- The Endless War is an afghan feature film based on (NDS) The national intelligence security service of Afghanistan.
- Donya works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory. Formerly a translator for the U.S. military, she struggles to put her life back in order. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie.
- An anthology of short films led by girls who find their own way in life.
- Members of the all-girl robotics team from Afghanistan struggle to succeed in international competitions while combating their male-dominated culture and the threat of Taliban rule.
- Under the mentorship of controversial pop star Aryana Sayeed, two young singers vie to become the first-ever female winners of Afghan Star. As their dreams are within grasp, their lives are changed when the Taliban returns to power.
- In a godforsaken place called "Snot hole", on the edge of a quarry, a new life begins for four young refugee men. Having a long escape behind them, they try to get back on their feet. Above all, they are searching for contact with women, encounters, love and sex. They find themselves in a different culture and faced with unexpected conflicts. In the film, these young men trace their paths through this new reality and thus are confronted with themselves, their masculinity and their sexuality.
- In July 2021, after the last foreign soldiers had left Afghanistan, the film team traveled to Kabul to portrait female singers. No one could have guessed at the time that this would be the last opportunity to do so.
- The story of Nadia Nadim, a young Afghan girl who took refuge in Denmark following the execution of her father by the Taliban. Today, Nadia is an international football star.
- In the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, mother of two Nasim and her family time and again manage to deal impressively with the challenges of this unacceptable and extreme situation.
- Sara Bahai, the first female taxi driver and women's rights activist in Afghanistan, is garnering the recognition in the public sphere she has always aspired. However, her greatest conflict arises in her own home.
- On a single day, Voice of America sent more than 75 camera crews to locations around the world to tell the story of a worldwide refugee crisis affecting more than 70 million people.
- When Herra, a Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan man, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join.
- As conductors of information, three journalists report on bombings, elections, and Taliban and US 'peace talks' for the Women's News Network in Kabul, Afghanistan.
- Award-winning filmmakers, Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi, present a real-life epic of boyhood and manhood, filmed across twenty years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe.
- Gemma helps asylum seekers trapped in Greece and Serbia to clandestinely cross the borders of the Balkan route driving them. She succeeds time and time again until she ends up in a Serbian prison accused of human trafficking.
- FLEE tells the extraordinary true story of a man, Amin, on the verge of marriage which compels him to reveal his hidden past for the first time.
- In a remote area in Afghanistan, stories of the lives of a young shepherdess, a bird catcher boy and a mourning teacher are intertwined by the wounds of war which are still bleeding.
- A lifelong hitman seeking freedom is confronted with the one choice he always feared. Is this his only way out?
- To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.
- Ken Metoxen is Native American. He is 55 years old and has always lived in a reservation in the north of the United States. A lively man, he nurtures a secret; on a trip to Paris, the 'city of light', he hopes to remake 'An American in Paris' in the rough areas along the roads of the capital, busy with homeless people and migrants from all around the world.
- A film about a place in Afghanistan where people come to escape everyday life and dream away from the war that surrounds them.
- When two men compete to qualify in the Winter Olympics for the first time for Afghanistan, they realize that home is worth fighting for. In their wake they leave a passion for skiing and a hope for a brighter future. Where the Light Shines is the debut documentary from Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Daniel Etter with stunning cinematography by Angello Faccini. It is produced by Academy Award nominees Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis along with Steven Sawalich from Articulus Entertainment. Filmed over four years, Where the Light Shines paints an intimate portrait of life in Afghanistan and shows the difficulties of trying to create change in a country that for generations has only seen war.
- Adamstown is doomed. Cursed by an old native spell, only animals are able to build and renovate in this place "out in the West". Animals had been expelled, but they seem to return and fight with humans about power and influence.
- 3 Afghan women from different backgrounds in Kabul face challenges: neglected pregnant Hava; educated Maryam facing divorce while pregnant; and teenage Ayesha marrying her cousin after her boyfriend leaves her pregnant. All by themselves.
- I Am You is inspired by the story of a refugee, the horrendous conditions before his heroic journey, the heartbreaking indifference confronting him along the way, and the uplifting power and humanity found in hope, truth and justice.