Afghan Filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat Safely Leaves Afghanistan

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAfghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who is at the Venice Film Festival gap financing market with the documentary “Kabul Melody,” says the lives of more than 150 students of Kabul’s National Institute of Music (ANIM) are at risk after armed Taliban guards shuttered the school and smashed all the musical instruments inside.A few days after the Taliban occupied Kabul “they went to the school and smashed all the instruments,” says Mani who has been making a

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

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAnissa Bonnefont, who latest film “Wonder Boy” won a Special Jury prize at Tribeca in 2020, has recently completed “Nadia,” a timely documentary feature about Nadia Nadim, the Afghan-born Danish soccer star.

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.

Clayton Davis Telluride is off, and it’s not business as usual.The first day began with the annual patron brunch, where press, talent and other festival-goers mingle in the celebration of the Colorado getaway, now in its 48th year. In attendance were “Belfast” writer and director Kenneth Branagh with one of his stars Jamie Dornan, which screens for the first time later this evening.

Korn frontman Jonathan Davis is still “struggling with COVID after-effects” after the singer tested positive for the virus earlier this month, according to guitarist Brian “Head” Welch.The nu-metal outfit were forced to cancel or postpone several dates on their current US tour after Davis received a positive test for COVID-19 on August 14.

The last U.S. military flight left Kabul’s international airport, marking an end to nearly 20 years of occupation in Afghanistan.

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"Real Housewives of New Jersey" alum Rosie Pierri took time out of her day to acknowledge a pair of US soldiers currently serving in Afghanistan. The former reality TV star commented on a Fox News Instagram post highlighting two soldiers who helped an Afghan woman evacuate from Kabul.

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

Clayton Davis Ahead of its upcoming premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee.

“Every day we’re on the ground is another day that we know ISIS-K seeking to target the airport and attack both U.S. and Allied Forces and innocent civilians,” said President Joe Biden today from the White House, throwing a new urgency and specter into the American withdrawal from now Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

Players from Afghanistan women’s national soccer team had an “important victory” on Tuesday when they were among a group of more than 75 people evacuated on a flight from Kabul.

Shahrbanoo Sadat, the Afghan filmmaker whose credits include 2019 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight pic The Orphanage, has successfully fled Kabul, according to her Danish producers Adomeit Film.

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