Hamid, a rich car salesman from Kabul is plagued by nightmares. Read More »
Tag Archives: Afghanistan
The Fabulous Adventures of Marco Polo AKA La fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo (1965) Denys de La Patellière, Raoul Lévy, Noël Howard, Horst Buchholz, Grégoire Aslan, Robert Hossein
Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels Read More »
An Apple from Paradise (2010) Homayun Morowat, Hashmat Fanaei, Rajab Gussainov, Mohaiuddin Safa
A pious old man, who is a proponent of suicide attackers, comes to Kabul to visit his only son Read More »
Neighbours (2009) Zubair Farghand, Mohammad Zabi Abdali, Ainuddin Abdulfezali, Noor Ahmad
Graphically depicts the brutalities on Afghan prisoners in an Iranian camp, Safaid Sang (White Stone) near the Iranian-Afghan border. Read More »
Wolf and Sheep (2016) Shahrbanoo Sadat, Sediqa, Qodrat, Amina
Based upon unpublished diaries, the film assumes the role of an anthropologist observing remote shepherd communities Read More »
Opium War (2008) Siddiq Barmak, Peter Bussian, Joe Suba, Fawad Samani, Comedy, Drama, War
Opium War is a 2008 Afghan black comedy film directed by Golden Globe winner, Siddiq Barmak. Read More »
Syngué sabour, pierre de patience / The Patience Stone (2012) Atiq Rahimi, Golshifteh Farahani, Hamid Djavadan, Hassina Burgan, Drama, War
Author Atiq Rahimi’s adapts his own bestselling novel about a Muslim woman whose paralyzed husband unconsciously assumes the role of syngué sabour, which shields her from the sorrows of life in her war-torn village. Her unnamed Middle Eastern country caught up in the insurrection, the loyal, thirty-something wife faithfully sits watch over her vegetative husband, who has been all-but forgotten by his brothers and fellow Jihadists. Over time, she gathers the courage to tell her husband all of the things she had remained silent about during their 10 years of marriage. Throughout the course of their conversations, she speaks frankly of the disappointments, sorrows, and sacrifices that have made her life so difficult throughout the previous decade.
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