Shahrbanoo Sadat's "No Good Men," which opens the Berlin Film Festival, mixes romance, politics and humor in ways that Afghan cinema has never done before. It's the tale of a camerawoman at a Kabul TV ...

The Berlin Film Festival 2026 will kick off with the world premiere of No Good Men, the third feature film from Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat, on Feb. 12 at the Berlinale Palast. "Shahrbanoo Sadat ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The Afghan president canceled his official visit to Norway amid concerns following Mideast riots over a film that ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, officials said Thursday.

In 1988, Afghanistan sent its first cosmonaut into space. Yes, really. Abdul Ahad Momand went where no Afghan had gone before - or has gone since - making Pashto the fourth language ever spoken beyond ...

How do you make a documentary when you can't film in person — and even hiring a cameraperson is risky? That was the challenge for the award-winning Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who left the country ...

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After an airline denied her entry into Saudi Arabia to present her film “Sima’s Song,” which is playing in competition at the Red Sea Film Festival, Afghan filmmaker Roya Sadat is now set to visit the ...

The creatives behind the films, backed by the grant scheme unveiled last year by Cate Blanchett and IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund, also address displacement and identity. By Georg Szalai Global Business ...

Ahead of the Locarno premiere of 'Forgotten Spaceman,' the London-based actor-director discusses his accidental documentary, a startling family connection and Afghanistan's "buried" history of ...

Shahrbanoo Sadat’s “No Good Men,” which opens the Berlin Film Festival, mixes romance, politics and humor in ways that Afghan cinema has never done before. I wanted to make a romantic comedy because I ...