Afghanistan Movies

The first of George Gittoes Love City trilogy made with actors and crew in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. A young filmmaker falls in love with Jasmin, the...

At one of the many checkpoints in the city, policemen take turns, exposed to all dangers, far from their families, sheltered in containers where they...

The postman’s inextricable difficulties as he does his rounds in the streets of Kabul, where addresses are often mysterious and deliveries akin...

A 10-year-old boy in a pink salwar kameez stands near a dune-coloured wall under a powder-blue sky. He frowns and gesticulates, conversing in stops...

On a wide, gravelly mountain road, earth-coloured dwellings in the background, small boys scamper behind tyres of different thickness and...

In the pre-civil war context in Afghanistan, the childhood friendship of Suraya (21, communist, wealthy) and Sima (20, conservative, humble Muslim)...

A tyrannical father with three sons is haunted by his eldest son after he is murdered in a robbery gone wrong.

Twenty-five years ago, when the Taliban took over Afghanistan and music was banned, Gholam Nabi and his family suffered a lot of oppression. He and...

There is a suitor for a little Afghan girl called Nazpari from Germany. Up to that point, no one has seen him. When the day comes, Nazpari...

Annie Goldson and Kay Ellmers’ doco, expanded from the film they made for Maori Television, takes a timely look at New Zealand’s military...

Rayhan is a student who had his life together in Afghanistan but then lost his family in an attack. This made him flee to London to have a better...

Filmed the night after the Taliban’s re-taking of Kabul, Takbir evokes the lasting material and cultural legacies of Afghanistan’s many...

Shooting on location in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, director Salar Pashtoonyar uses a thought-provoking yet powerfully humane hybrid of...

A woman is raped. Instead going after her attacker, the law and society imprison the victim.

“Saralish” means arranged marriage. In rural Iran, men dominate. A little girl is exchanged by another one, not even knowing what is...

A Pashtun villager boy visits Kabul for the first time ever.

The British Regisseur Phil Grabsky has documented an Afghan boy's life for 10 years.

It narrates the story of violence against women and also reflects the culture of North People of Afghanistan.