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A glance on the women who live in a geographical restriction of Afghanistan and the cities who have thousands of stories on women. The film addresses those who tyrannize over women, and who misuse cultural issues and religion.
Gul Afrooz is engaged to her lover Firooz, despite this she is forced to marry an old warlord, a Khan.The Khan sends her to Iran as a drug courier for an opium ring. The ring is busted and she has to avoid the police and the revenge of the Khan (nomsheep)
With the Cold War about to break out in Afghanistan, young, lifelong friends Suraya and Sima must question their life choices and moral principles when they get involved in opposite sides of the conflict.
After the United States and coalition troops announced they would withdraw their forces from Afghanistan in 2021, the subsequent collapse of the government and the rise of the Taliban have left the people of Afghanistan in fear of the future in a country that has suffered seemingly endless cycles of violence. Four extraordinary and brave women leaders, whose work in politics and social justice has already earned them international recognition, rise together, determined to fight for women’s rights under the new government.
Ay Nabaat is a 17-year-old girl from the Turkmen ethnic minority in Afghanistan
Against oppression, change, and seismic political shifts, a father and his daughter find solace in the seemingly clandestine act of kite flying, in the latest by Afghan filmmaker Tarique Qayumi.
A man has left his country when his wife was killed during the war. Now he must go back to Kabul for wedding of one of his daughters. Unwillingly he gets involved in an internal conflict...
Hassan runs a nonprofit lotto company to treat poor youth with heart diseases. After losing his organization financially and also his mother, due to the political situation, Hassan is left with no choice but to leave the country and join his fiancé Tabasom, who has waited him for seven years in Canada. After feeling hopeless and struggling to adjust in the new country and culture, the young couple decides to follow their dreams and passion and return to their homeland and to re-establish the lotto company in order to help the children again.
Kabul - a city struggling to recover from 25 years of warfare. Taxi driver Khaled picks up a woman and baby. Her face is hidden behind a blue burka. They settle on a price, she pays him and they drive off. The taxi arrives at its destination. The woman gets out and a new passenger climbs in... to find the baby still in the backseat. Khaled leaps out after the woman but she's vanished. He's left holding the baby - a 6-month-old boy. Who is the mother? How can he find her? He asks friends and strangers in the street. He returns to where he picked her up. Nothing. Fate has handed him a young life for which he feels more and more responsible. An eventful, chaotic, often highly comic journey through a city which is itself simply trying to survive. Poignant, rich, vibrant, Barmak Akram's debut feature is a remarkable portrait of one man's emotional awakening in a city returning to crazy life after 25 years of violent conflict.
After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son.