Following decades of war, Afghanistan’s film and TV industry has been struggling to get back on its feet. Some brave filmmakers are trying to change all that by challenging the country’s outdated societal norms.
CCTV’s Natalie Carney raises the curtain on how Afghanistan’s film and TV industry has evolved.
Sarwa Ruddin at work restoring historical Afghan films that had to be kept hidden from the Taliban.
Many volumes of historical Afghan film is yet to be restored.
CCTV’s Natalie Carney shows one of the many hidden spaces where Afghanistan’s film heritage was kept safe from the Taliban’s destruction.
Volumes of Afghanistan’s film history has been lost to various form of disrepair and decay.
Ahmad Shah Sediqqi was one of eleven men from the Afghan Film Commission that hid the negatives of some of Afghanistan’s most revered films from the Taliban – a conservative and ruthless regime that ruled the country between 1996 and 2001. The Taliban banned all films and pictures, saying they are against God. Sediqqi now spends his days restoring these films for future generations.
Ahmad Shah Sediqqi was one of eleven men from the Afghan Film Commission that hid the negatives of some of Afghanistan’s most revered films from the Taliban – a conservative and ruthless regime that ruled the country between 1996 and 2001. The Taliban banned all films and pictures, saying they are against God. Sediqqi now spends his days restoring these films for future generations.
Tonight is the finale of Tolo TV’s “Afghan Superstar,” a musical talent show. This kind of program was unimaginable just a few years ago under the Taliban.
Tonight is the finale of Tolo TV’s “Afghan Superstar,” a musical talent show. This kind of program was unimaginable just a few years ago under the Taliban.
Tonight is the finale of Tolo TV’s “Afghan Superstar,” a musical talent show. This kind of program was unimaginable just a few years ago under the Taliban.
OSAMA: Acclaim abroad / Controversy at home
Some of the country’s most internationally recognized works are also its most controversial.
Osama was a film about a girl living under Taliban rule who disguises herself as a boy to support her family. It won a Golden Globe and earned almost 4 million US dollars abroad, but was viewed negatively by conservatives in Afghanistan.
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