Berlin Opener ‘No Good Men’ Director Shahrbanoo Sadat on Making Afghanistan’s First Film Featuring an Onscreen Kiss (And a Vibrator)

Shahrbanoo Sadat’s “No Good Men,” which opens the Berlin Film Festival, mixes romance, politics and humor in ways that Afghan cinema has never done before. It’s the tale of a camerawoman at a Kabul ...

'Naive optimist' opens Berlin Film Festival with Afghan romantic comedy

Are there any good men in Afghanistan?"I do believe there are good men, but I also believe that we need more good men in the ...
Manila Standard

Afghan film opens Berlin festival, questions men under Taliban

Are there any good men in Afghanistan? The opening film at this year’s Berlin Film Festival poses the question against the ...
Newsday

Afghanistan's historic Ariana Cinema torn down to make way for shopping center

KABUL, Afghanistan — Through the decades, downtown Kabul’s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still standing to entertain Afghans with Bollywood movies ...
The Hollywood Reporter

In ‘Cinema Jazireh,’ a Woman Dresses up as a Man in Taliban Afghanistan in Search of Her Son, Hope

In ‘Cinema Jazireh,’ a Woman Dresses up as a Man in Taliban Afghanistan in Search of Her Son, Hope "Believing in the existence of hope gives you the strength to resist," Turkish writer-director Gözde ...
Omaha.com

Movie harkens to '07 SKorean abductions by Taliban

BUSAN, South Korea (AP) - The South Korean Christians kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2007 returned home to not just relief but outrage, rapped for engaging in zealous missionary activity ...