Am 13. August lancierte Sahraa Karimi, Direktorin der Afghan Film Organization, einen Hilferuf: “Do not let Afghan cinema die. Even if you are in exile.” Vor wenigen Tagen, am 23. September, kommt dann über Twitter die Nachricht: „I am now officially Former Afghan Film Director General. Done.“ Sechs Wochen liegen dazwischen.
Bereits 2013 zeigte UNDERDOX den Kollektivfilm FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN, der nach Vorbild von LOIN DU VIETNAM (1967) entstanden war. Einer der Regisseur*innen des Films, John Gianvito, schreibt heute an UNDERDOX:”In my view our film has, sadly, lost little of its relevance. I’ve been regularly in touch the past weeks with one of the members of AFGHAN VOICES who filmed many of the sequences in the film and sadly he and his family were unable to leave the country despite repeated efforts to get through the crowds at the Kabul airport. Just one of the thousands of stories out there, though we are continuing to pursue alternative solutions”.
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UNDERDOX zeigt FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN in einem solidarischen Screening.
mittwoch 13 okt 17.00 werkstattkino | eintritt: 10 Euro
Die Einnahmen gehen an das International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Zu Gast: Ali Khorosh Fazli Bayat (KINO ASYL)
