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 ...

Variety is premiering the trailer (below) for feature documentary “Transition,” which follows Australian filmmaker Jordan Bryon, a trans man, as he embeds with a Taliban unit as they retake control of ...

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 ...

This review originally ran Sept. 3, 2022, in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. “Retrograde,” director Matthew Heineman’s searing, intimate look at the United ...

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 ...

BELLOWS FALLS — Stone Church Center continues its film series with "The Boy Mir — 10 Years in Afghanistan," a follow-up documentary to the international hit, "The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of ...

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 ...

The families of three young boys in the adaptation of The Kite Runner are worried about retaliation. The boys' work on the movie included appearing in a rape scene. Afghan-American author Hyder Akbar ...

Women filmmakers from Afghanistan made a powerful and emotional plea for international intellectual support at a panel at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. “The Taliban is trying to show the soft ...

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 ...