A Flickering Truth (2015)

As Afghanistan teeters on an unpredictable future, A FLICKERING TRUTH unwraps the world of three dreamers, the dust of 100 years of war and the restoration of 8000 hours of film archive. What surprises will emerge from the cloak of time?

Director:

Pietra Brettkelly

Writer:

Pietra Brettkelly

Stars:

Ibrehim Arif, Mahmoud Ghafouri, Isaaq Yousif

4 wins & 6 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Ibrehim Arif
Mahmoud Ghafouri
Isaaq Yousif

Storyline

Film preservation is a challenge all over the world, but on this scale of crisis Afghanistan ranks near the very top. The mini boom in film production that followed the establishment of the state Afghan Film organization in 1965 came to an end with the ascension of the Taliban, which viewed cinema as Western culture that needed to be expunged. The country's film history might well have been lost forever, if not for the brave custodians who risked their lives to conceal films from the regime. In A Flickering Truth, we meet the dedicated cinephiles who are now excavating, preserving, and restoring thousands of hours of film footage, both drama and documentary, from Afghanistan's cinematic past. The effort is led by Ibrahim Arify, who had been jailed for filmmaking under the Mujahedeen and fled the country to start a new life in Germany. Now, he has returned to rebuild Afghan Film and help bring a sense of order to a country where resources are scarce and needs are great. The heart of ...

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Plot Keywords:

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Taglines:

8000 hours of films. Deteriorating in a war-torn nation. One man's mission to save them.

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Genres:

Documentary

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Trivia

Official submission of New Zealand for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 89th Academy Awards in 2017.

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Details

Country:

New Zealand

Language:

English Dari

Release Date:

29 April 2016 (UK)

Also Known As:

Kaboul cinéma: Une vérité fragile

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$5,978

Company Credits

Production Co:

PBK Limited

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Color:

Color