What does it cost to ruin a land? When is the moment to call a land ruined? When is the moment we can’t see the hope? What makes a woman strong enough to be the hope and light and warmth even in the darkest times of life? What is the role of men in Afghanistan? One woman, as tough as a brave lioness who fearlessly goes between men ruled land, to create a new vision, new voice, and to create understanding about the possible real problem among the people. The only support and tension releasing moment for her is the fact that her husband stands behind her, an understanding open minded man. And her beautiful children’s smile.

Director: Dawood Hilmandi
Contact: info@dawoodhilmandi.com

Patriot Mr. Sharif Watan dost who wears a red hat which is a symbol of millennial Hazara culture. He is successful comedian who goes to war of poverty, Mafia and racism with empty hands, a lot of anger and force. He buries a bunch of young people who have been killed in schools, maternity wards, mosques and stadiums, all of which are hazara people. But he is just watching this systematic massacre that has ancient roots, from the time of Abdul Rahman to the Ashraf Ghani. Despite, the fall of Ghani these systematic killings are continued till date.

Director: Nematullah Khoshamadi
Contact: khoshahmadi.85@gmail.com

Kabul Melody is Mani’s second feature documentary after her 2019 work  A Thousand Girls Like Me about a young woman who seeks justice having been sexually abused by her father for years. Mani had begun work on the film in 2015, following two girls who challenge societal mores and risk their lives to study music at Afghanistan’s National Institute of Music in Kabul.“The school was close to where I lived in Kabul,” she explains. ”It was kind of exceptional because boys and girls were studying together. In a city where every day you heard gunshots and the sound of violence, the melodies coming out of its compound were a huge contrast.“I saw it as a type of utopia. It made me dream of an Afghanistan where guns would one day be replaced by instruments.” Mani had been planning to end the documentary by showing how Afghan musicians were taking on teaching and managerial roles at the school, originally filled by international staff who helped get the institution off the ground. Mani is now editing the film in Paris and is looking for some post production financing.

Director: Sahra Mani
Contact: Sahramanifilms@gmail.com

The film shows what the Afghan people have achieved in the last twenty years with the help of the international community when it comes to press and media freedom. It answers to the question of what did the fall of Kabul bring to these achievements; And it also paints a picture of what will be the future of freedom of expression in Afghanistan.

Throught the eyes of chief-editor Zaki Daryabi is determend to keep the values of the newpaper Etilaatroz running. With the 50 employees who fight for awareness among the Afghan people trying to continue reporting in the newspaper. The journalists are recognized as creative, clean and promising journalists. The film portrays an in describable determination to fight for freedom of speech but in the end is not able to sustain under the extreme pressure and rough less methods of the Taliban.

Director: Abbas Rezayye
Producer: Zaki Daryabi
Contact: Zaki.daryabi2@gmail.com