The Forbidden Reel plot
The history of Afghanistan in the second half of the twentieth century has been marked by oppression and violence. Canadian-Afghan filmmaker Ariel Nasr tells this story through Afghan film history. Interviews with film historian Mariam Ghani, filmmakers Latif Ahmadi and Siddiq Barmak, actress Yasmin Yarmal and others involved are interspersed with film fragments – both fiction and documentary – from the archives of the national film institute Afghan Film. The images show a rich culture at a time when the country went through many drastic changes, from the communist regime and the war with Russia to the suppression by the Muslim fundamentalist Taliban.
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