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Award-winning documentary In the Room puts rights of Afghan women in spotlight

In the Room, the 2025 Audience Award — Showcase winner at the Vancouver International Film Festival, will be landing on the National Film Board (NFB) website for free streaming beginning Nov. 25. The ...
WAMC

Young documentary filmmaker describes his trip to Afghanistan

Luke Basso has been producing documentary short films on veterans and military history since he was in high school. He recently returned from Afghanistan and tells WAMC North Country Bureau Chief Pat ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Afghanistan’s Female Emissary to Austria Defies the Taliban in Doc ‘The Last Ambassador’ (Trailer)

Natalie Halla's film, premiering at doc fest CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, follows Manizha Bakhtari, her Daughters program and other work since the Taliban took power in 2021. By Georg Szalai Global Business ...
PBS

Afghan women's freedoms severely restricted four years after U.S. withdrawal, UN says

Four years ago today, the U.S. military completed its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Since then, the Taliban has imposed Islamic law and severely restricted the rights of girls and women. John ...
Variety

‘A Dog Called Money’ Director Seamus Murphy Preps Feature Documentary on Resilient Afghan Family Rebuilding Their Lives Amid War and Exile

Irish photojournalist and filmmaker Seamus Murphy (“A Dog Called Money”) is developing a feature documentary that tells the remarkable story of a resilient Afghan family forced to flee their war-torn ...