Afghanistan Movies

2021, Afghanistan right before the Taliban’s return. Naru, the only camerawoman at Kabul’s main TV station, struggles to keep custody of...

In 1988, Abdul Ahad Momand became Afghanistan's first and only astronaut. From orbit, he called his mother, making Pashto the fourth language spoken...

After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to...

In a war-ridden country, a woman watches over her husband, comatose from a bullet in the neck and abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One...

In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a woman walks into a chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full-body veil and face an uncertain future.

Saddled by a senile grandfather and a neglectful father, Mina, an impulsive twelve-year-old Afghan street seller sees her future slipping away when...

The third of George Gittoes Love City trilogy made with actors and crew in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In this third chapter, Ghuty takes her turn in...

As the U.S. planned to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in September 2021, Canadian-Afghan filmmaker and journalist Brishkay Ahmed was filming IN THE...

In Jaan the filmmaker uses her mother’s forbidden cassettes and dance to tell the stories and show the spirit of Afghan women across...

In the year following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, young journalist Claude Baechtold finds himself in the war zone of Afghanistan. Not entirely...

Amid the destruction of Afghan cinema, a young boy rescues reels from a fire and carries them through Kabul, showing movies to people who rarely get...

A pious old man, who is a proponent of suicide attackers, comes to Kabul to visit his only son, who, after the holy war had remained in the Soviet...

The first of George Gittoes Love City trilogy made with actors and crew in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. A young filmmaker falls in love with Jasmin, the...

It’s snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begin a clandestine...

An Iranian expat journeys back to his homeland, where he must face his domineering father and grapple with complex emotions about family ties,...

Graphically depicts the brutalities on Afghan prisoners in an Iranian camp, Safaid Sang (White Stone) near the Iranian-Afghan border. Based on true...

In Afghanistan many hundreds of boys, often as young as ten, are being lured off the streets on the promise of a new life.

Two American soldiers crash their helicopter in the Afghan desert and find themselves at the mercy of the natural elements and an eclectic family of...

The story of four kids in Afghanistan whose lives changed dramatically after US troops completed their withdrawal and the Taliban swept to power