Afghan Filmmaker Sahra Mani, in Venice With ‘Kabul Melody’ Project, Says Lives of Kabul Music School Students Are at Risk

coronavirus pandemic, and some families now too fearful to work are selling off furniture to get by.“The current situation is oppressive,” said Muzafar Bakhsh, a 21-year-old who played in a wedding band. His family had just sold off part of its belongings at Kabul’s new flea market, Chaman-e-Hozari.

coronavirus pandemic, and some families now too fearful to work are selling off furniture to get by.“The current situation is oppressive,” said Muzafar Bakhsh, a 21-year-old who played in a wedding band. His family had just sold off part of its belongings at Kabul’s new flea market, Chaman-e-Hozari.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Holding forth at a masterclass she delivered at the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Tabakalera venue on Tuesday Sept.

As told to In July, my younger sister and I booked last-minute tickets to fly from our homes in D.C. to our mother’s home in Kabul, Afghanistan. We wanted to see our family because, ever since the U.S.

Afghanistan in a Scots council area. So far 18 volunteers from East Dumbartonshire have raised nearly £6,000 by walking the distance between Syria and Scotland which is just under 3,000 miles.

Scottish RAF Sergeant who played a heroic role on the final evacuation flight from Kabul has spoken about the ‘unforgettable’ moment he encountered with an Afghan mother and her baby. Andy Livingstone, from Scotland, has been lauded a hero after pictures emerged of him cradling the baby of an Afghan refugee too exhausted to hold her child.

PARIS -- As a filmmaker, Shahrbanoo Sadat watched with fascination as Taliban fighters took over her city and terrified crowds animated the streets.

VENICE -- Afghan female filmmakers who fled the Taliban begged the world to not forget the Afghan people and to support its artists, warning Saturday that a country without culture will eventually lose its identity.The Venice Film Festival organized a panel discussion Saturday to give a platform to Sahraa Karimi, the first female president of the Afghan Film Organization, and documentary filmmaker Sahra Mani, who is presenting a project at the Venice film market fair.Karimi choked up while

A powerful panel to discuss the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan and the role the artistic community can play in increasing awareness was held at the Venice Film Festival this afternoon. It was notably attended by Afghan filmmakers Sahraa Karimi and Sahra Mani.

iOS - Android In response to the situation in Afghanistan, a spokesman for the council told Lanarkshire Live today: "South Lanarkshire Council and Community Planning Partners will welcome five Afghan families (approximately 25 people) and arrival arrangements are being put in place to receive and resettle families as a matter of priority." Since 2015, more than 170 Syrian refugees were re-homed in the region following the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011.It is understood that COSLA

Prince William "personally intervened" to get the family of an Afghan officer out of Kabul amid the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, it has been reported.The 39 year old knew the former cadet from Sandhurst and heard how he was trying to get his family out of the country before the Taliban seized it. It is believed that the Duke of Cambridge asked his equerry, Naval officer Rob Nixon, to make calls on his behalf in order to help.

Prince William has “personally intervened” to help an officer he knew from Sandhurst out of Afghanistan.

Cori Shepherd Stern, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and social-change strategist who helped Afghan girls come to school in the U.S., told The New York Times. “These men were quite literally going into the masses and pulling our women to safety, while coordinating with our guy to find them.

Afghan refugee fleeing to the UK gave birth to a baby girl at 30,000 feet while on an evacuation flight destined for Birmingham.Soman Noori, 26, was travelling on an evacuation flight from Dubai to Birmingham, having previously left Kabul, when she went into labour in airspace over Kuwait, Turkish Airlines said.There was no doctor on board the flight, forcing the Turkish Airlines cabin crew to deliver the baby girl, who has been named Havva by her mother and father, 30-year-old husband Taj Moh

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe upcoming Venice Film Festival is set to become a focal point for discussion on the crisis underway in Afghanistan and how it is impacting filmmakers and Afghan artists in general as the Taliban take power.As previously reported by Variety, Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi, who is the first woman president of the country’s national film entity Afghan Film –– and made a recent appeal as she escaped from Kabul about the return of Taliban rule and the

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAfghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi, who was at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 with female-centric drama “Hava, Maryam, Ayesha,” will soon be traveling back to the fest to raise awareness about the plight of filmmakers in her country after the Taliban’s reclamation of power.Karimi is also head of state-run company Afghan Film –– the first woman to head the org –– and managed to flee her country shortly after Kabul fell into the Taliban’s grip.

Linda Norgrove Foundation has issued a public appeal for Boris Johnson to get two of its staff members, who are sisters, out of the Taliban-controlled capital. The two women are in hiding in the city with their families and despite cross-party pressure from MPs over the past week the UK Foreign Office has not contacted them for evacuation.