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In the zone
JOURNALISM: How do the stories we hear and see come from the conflict zone to our pages and screens? Through the fall of IS, Journalist at War seeks to find out.
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Forthcoming Features: Laughing in Afghanistan – «I told myself we must do the film at all costs»
INTERVIEW: Director Anneta Papathanassiou speaks with Modern Times Review on her forthcoming film Laughing in Afghanistan.
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Woman as a Victim of the Afghan System
AFGHANISTAN: In 2021, Doclisboa dedicated one of its programme blocks to the topic of women in the patriarchal society of Afghanistan. While the two films screened, Orchestra from the Land of Silence (2020) and Oh Dear Sara (2021), differ in many ways, their chilling message takes on a particularly intense dimension given the current situation…
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Searching for Freedom
INTERVIEW: Slovak director Lucie Kašová reveals her relationship to the subjects of both documentaries and shares her personal stance on the socio-political changes that have shaped the situation in Afghanistan in recent months.
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War is a racket
CONFLICT: The story of a Romanian soldier in the Afghan war and that of a young girl who found herself in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
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A woman’s struggle with reality
WOMEN OF EUROPE: Sweden's former Foreign and Vice Prime Minister Margot Wallström believes we currently live in a world of autocrats, where Nordic welfare values have poor conditions.
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The tragic destiny of Afghan cinema
CINEMA: Marked by violence and oppression, Afghanistan’s recent history, Ariel Nasr’s documentary shows the invaluable nature of cinema.
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The art of displacement: mobiles on the migrant trail
MIGRANTS: The Fazili family shoots their perilous journey from Afghanistan through the Balkan migration route to an uncertain future on three mobile phones.
