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- Immediately after the US pullout from Afghanistan, Taliban forces occupied the Hollywood Gate complex, which is claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul.
- After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
- A 15-year-old ticket scalper in Kabul dreams of Bollywood until the Soviets force him into a state facility.
- The Mansouri family opens up a new restaurant after the fall of the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan only to be subsequently targeted by factional Taliban elements.
- The movie portrays Isaac and Zabulon, the last two Jews in Afghanistan's once 50,000-strong Jewish community, residing in an abandoned Kabul synagogue after others left. It explores their lives as the sole remaining Jewish residents.
- In a remote area in Afghanistan, stories of the lives of a young shepherdess, a bird catcher boy and a mourning teacher are intertwined by the wounds of war which are still bleeding.
- Based upon unpublished diaries, the film assumes the role of an anthropologist observing remote shepherd communities in Afghanistan where wolves and sheep have equal importance.
- It's snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begins a clandestine relationship - they're playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules they are breaking. After Wajma discovers she is pregnant, her certainty that Mustafa will marry her falters, and word of their dalliance gets out. Her father must decide between his culturally held right to uphold family honor and his devotion to his daughter.
- When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, taking a photo was a crime. After the regime fell from power in 2001, a fledgling free press emerged and a photography revolution was born. Now, as foreign troops and media withdraw, Afghanistan is left to stand on its own, and so are its journalists. Set in a modern Afghanistan bursting with color and character, FRAME BY FRAME follows four Afghan photojournalists as they navigate an emerging and dangerous media landscape reframing Afghanistan for the world, and for themselves. Through cinema vérité, intimate interviews, powerful photojournalism, and never-before-seen archival footage shot in secret during the Taliban regime, the film connects audiences with four humans in the pursuit of the truth.
- Two American soldiers wounded in the Afghanistan desert stumble across a Russian tank which has a group of Afghanis living inside.
- Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk, as they make their way to the coal mine where Dastaguir's son Murad works. Dastaguir must tell Murad that the rest of their family were all killed in a recent bomb attack.
- Soraya, a low-level government official, is imprisoned when she defends a woman from village lords. Behind bars, she writes the Afghan President for help.
- In a post-Taliban Afghanistan a young woman (Agheleh Rezaie) attends school against her conservative father's will, hoping to learn more about democracy to fulfill her dream of being the country's next president.
- Members of the all-girl robotics team from Afghanistan struggle to succeed in international competitions while combating their male-dominated culture and the threat of Taliban rule.
- A young Afghan-American on a journey of "self-discovery".
- An anthology of short films led by girls who find their own way in life.
- A man has left his country when his wife was killed during the war. Now he must go back to Kabul for wedding of one of his daughters. Unwillingly he gets involved in an internal conflict...
- An Afghan mother and a US filmmaker, connected through one stray bullet, forge a surprising friendship amidst America's longest war.
- A historical love story about a family conflict between two lover. It happens in a place called Buzkashi match.
- Under the mentorship of controversial pop star Aryana Sayeed, two young singers vie to become the first-ever female winners of Afghan Star. As their dreams are within grasp, their lives are changed when the Taliban returns to power.
- The story of survival of 2 children in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Their mother has been imprisoned for "adultery" and their father is in Guantanamo Bay.
- "Hassan" is a family drama film that demonstrates love, compassion and humanity amongst the Afghan community living in Afghanistan and abroad. Hassan runs a non-profit lotto company which helps to treat poor sick kids with heart diseases. After losing his organization financially and also his Mother, due to the political situation, Hassan is left with no choice, but to leave the country and join his fiancé Tabasom, who has waited him for seven years in Canada. After feeling hopeless and struggling to adjust in the new country and culture, the young couple decides to follow their dreams and passion and return to their homeland and to re-establish Hassan's lotto company in order to help the children again. Will Hassan and Tabason succeed in their mission to inspire people all around the world, especially Afghans, to reach out to poor people especially kids who lack basic needs like health care, food and shelter.
- Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime.
- A group of young Afghan artists decide to open a cultural center in the heart of Kabul.