During the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were shut out of public life, punishments took the form of public executions, and media was banned. That made the archives ...

More than a year and a half after U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan, Guy Ritchie's new film "The Covenant" is honoring the heroes who stood by American troops during the country's longest-lasting ...

An Afghan man – his face of map of exaggerated agony – runs from his Kabul home, picking up the blood-drenched body of the woman he loves most in this world. “My wife,” preeminent actor Salim Shaheen ...

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 and American ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan has banned an Indian Bollywood film about journalists in the war-ravaged country because parts of it were deemed offensive to one of Afghanistan's ethnic minorities, a ...

Featuristic Films has unveiled an exclusive first look at the feature documentary “Afghanistan.” It follows filmmaker James Glancy, a former British Royal Marine Commando who was decorated in 2012 for ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - When director Brigitte Bertele shot her film about a traumatized German soldier returning from Afghanistan, she did not think its release would coincide with a heated debate about ...

Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal are in talks to appear in a new drama set during the Afghanistan war, say reports. The movie, which is a remake of a Danish film called Brothers, tells the tale of ...

Documentary captures journalist's gender transition while embedded with Taliban A new documentary now available on Amazon Prime and AppleTV offers an in-depth look at the Taliban takeover of ...

Sahraa Karimi, film director (“Hava, Maryam, Ayesha”) and head of the Afghan Film Organization, has been named as head of the jury at the next edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival. The ...

Huge questions loom about the status of an archive of thousands of films that dates back to 1927. During the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were shut out of public ...