Afghanistan Movies

A 10-year-old boy in a pink salwar kameez stands near a dune-coloured wall under a powder-blue sky. He frowns and gesticulates, conversing in stops...

Three interwoven stories of loneliness and isolation that centre around Janan, a woman from Afghanistan who travels to the UK for artificial...

The story of four kids in Afghanistan whose lives changed dramatically after US troops completed their withdrawal and the Taliban swept to power

A mild-mannered farm laborer becomes enraged when the landowner's spoiled son forces the laborer's wife to sing for a foreign guest.

A woman is raped. Instead going after her attacker, the law and society imprison the victim.

In Jaan the filmmaker uses her mother’s forbidden cassettes and dance to tell the stories and show the spirit of Afghan women across...

On a wide, gravelly mountain road, earth-coloured dwellings in the background, small boys scamper behind tyres of different thickness and...

Story of an artist who loves a spoiled rich girl, who marries a wealthy man instead, only to find out that he's a gangster. Both artist and girl get...

After the death of the family's matriarch, her husband and son must confront not only the corruption in society around them but the corruption within...

Salim Shaheen film from Afghanistan

Five friends live their lives to the fullest in Kabul, Afghanistan on the cusp of an ending era that tests friendship and their very lives, to the...

In March 2001, the ruling Taliban destroyed Afghanistan's foremost tourist attraction, the 1600 year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan. This film follows the...

Through a child's lens, The Honest Poet reveals a rarely seen side of Afghanistan, following 11-year-old Raheem on a journey through his country and...

Akhtar is a good humored working class man who is nicknamed The Joker, and tries to rise on the social ladder during the 1970s in Kabul.

Afghan refugee Samira goes on her first date in London with Harun, a second-generation British Afghan. Based on the 2018 shoet film of the same name.

Through this haunting portrayal of an aid worker’s story, Salar Pashtoonyar sheds light on the troubling realities of a nation in turmoil in...

Marefat high school morning assembly: the girls shift with a few boys, and faculty entering the school courtyard at 5:30 am, gathering, lining up...

"Mom made it home alive from the street protest again today!" As soon as Zainab Entezar opens the door to her home and walks in, she is greeted by...

Inside a confined cube, chaotic shadow dancers move without rhythm or order. A mysterious figure, seen only through fragments of a face, begins...