Afghanistan

Yellow

By Alan Ng | August 2023

HOLLYSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! The phrase “new normal” comes to mind when watching writer-director Elham Ehsas’ short film, Yellow. A young…

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HOLLYSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! The phrase "new normal" comes to mind when watching writer-director Elham Ehsas' short film, Yellow. A young woman...

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Equal parts maddening and heartbreaking, With This Breath I Fly unflinchingly documents the legal travails of two women in Afghanistan who have been...

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Salar Pashtoonyar's short film, Bad Omen, is not a horror film but presents a horrific situation. Pari (Fereshta Afshar) is a widow raising two young...

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We call them refugees, and we sympathize over their plights. However, it's easy to forget this large group is comprised of individuals trying to survive in...

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SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! I can honestly say that I have never seen a film quite like Flee. A mixed-medium documentary,...

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Immigration policy is both divisive and complex. However, you would think that when it comes to interpreters who risked their lives to help US troops in...

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NEW TO AMAZON PRIME! Here's something you don't see every day: a searing Danish-Afghan drama, helmed by a female Afghan auteur, about what it was like...

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I can always count on festival films to bring to light the current crises in the world, and just by the sheer numbers, the current crisis today is the...

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Hava, Maryam, Ayesha is a three-part anthology by director Sahraa Karimi about three Afghan women from these differing social backgrounds living in the...

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