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Kabul Film Festival

Encouraging Afghan filmmakers

With the fall of the Taliban came the influx of a new generation of Afghans, who grew up in the refugee camps of Iran or Pakistan. Some of these managed to receive higher education in their host country and became politicized. They returned with the desire to implement their vision for a better Afghan society. Many of these have turned towards the arts and the social sciences.

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Malek Shafi'i - The director of the Kabul Film Festival and Basa Kabul in front of his office in Karteh Seh Robert Kluijver

With contributions from the German-French TV channel ARTE, the festival has a partner that symbolises not only a model of a bilateral TV cooperation leading to the most important cultural TV channels in Europe, but also a German-French initiative that cooperated with other European TV channels in Belgium, Spain and Poland.

Apart from Afghan film experts, the festival committee invited representatives from the Iranian Short Film News network, the Pakistani Kara Film Festival and the Tajik Filmmaker’s Union, together with a German and a French representative from ARTE to discuss possibilities for a future regional cooperation.

The opening of the festival to neighbouring countries and the following discussions on a regional cooperation are another mile stone to bridge Afghan cinema with international and regional filmmaking.

Source: Kabul Film Festival

Contact information

  • Kabul Film Festival
  • Karte-se
  • Darolaman Road
  • Kabul
  • AF