#Sahraa Karimi

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Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi’s open letter pleading for aid for the Afghan community shortly before the Taliban took control of Kabul.

Karimi has continued to plead for international aid as she tries to flee the country. She has been posting periodic updates on Twitter.

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Afghan director Sahraa Karimi giving an interview from Kyiv, Ukraine recounting escape from Kabul - DW

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So much for the Biden/Harris administration aiding women’s rights 

Everyone who voted for them got played

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Exclusive! Afghan filmmaker Hassan Fazili: Taliban will destroy all art; there will be no cultural movement left in Afghanistan - Times of India

Exclusive! Afghan filmmaker Hassan Fazili: Taliban will destroy all art; there will be no cultural movement left in Afghanistan – Times of India

Much has been said ever since the powerful statement and video of Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi went viral on social media. Many fear the new rulers will soon impose a strict Islamic state in Afghanistan and will be looking to punish artists and their artworks. Amid this chaos, ETimes got in touch with Afghan filmmaker Hassan Fazili, who had once escaped from the Taliban and is now settled in…

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Afganistan, straziante appello della regista afgana Sahraa Karimi

Afganistan, straziante appello della regista afgana Sahraa Karimi

Afganistan, Sahraa Karimi in fuga dall’Afganistan gira un video che Ansa.it mette in rete e che sta facendo il giro del mondo attraverso You Tube Riceviamo e pubblichiamo Per vedere il video clicca qui -> Video Fonte Ansa.it L’appello straziante della regista afghana #SahraaKarimi, che ha lasciato il paese dopo l’arrivo dei talebani a Kabul, riprendendo col cellulare cosa stava accadendo per le…

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Cineasta Sahraa Karimi logró huir de Kabul: ‘Estoy bien y segura’

Cineasta Sahraa Karimi logró huir de Kabul: ‘Estoy bien y segura’

Sahraa Karimi, directora de cine afgana y actual directora general de Afghan Film, compañía cinematográfica, contó en su cuenta de Twitter que logró escapar de Kabul y que se encuentra en una zona protegida. “Mis queridos amigos, no se preocupen. Estoy bien y segura”, dijo en Twitter. En el mensaje, además, agradece a la eslovaca Wanda Hrycova y a los gobiernos de Ucrania y de Turquía. “Todos…

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movie recs?

I was going to post a different list, but right now it is only films about Afghanistan and by Afghan filmmakers that matter.

by Afghan (& Iranian) filmmakers:

An Apple from Paradise (2010), dir. Homayun Morowat

Black Kite (2017), dir. Tarique Qayumi

The Black Tulip (2010), dir. Sonia Nassery Cole

Chand metre moka'ab eshgh/A Few Cubic Meters of Love (2014), dir. Jamshid Mahmoudi

Hava, Maryam, Ayesha (2019), dir. Sahraa Karimi

Kabuli Kid (2008), dir. Barmak Akram

Khakestar-o-khak/Earth and Ashes (2004), dir. Atiq Rahimi

Namai ba rahis gomhor/A Letter to the President (2017), dir. Roya Sadat

Opium War (2008), dir. Siddiq Barmak

Osama (2003), dir. Siddiq Barmak

Panj é asr/At Five in the Afternoon (2003), dir. Samira Makhmalbaf

Parwareshghah/The Orphanage (2019), dir. Shahrbanoo Sadat

Safar e Ghandehar/Kandahar (2001), dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Syngué sabour, pierre de patience/The Patience Stone (2012), dir. Atiq Rahimi

Utopia (2015), dir. Hassan Nazer

Wolf and Sheep (2016), dir. Shahrbanoo Sadat

Zolykha's Secret (2006), dir. Horace Shansab

by Western directors:

In This World (2002), dir. Michael Winterbottom

Jirga (2018), dir. Benjamin Gilmour

The Kite Runner (2007), dir. Marc Forster

Mina Walking (2015), dir. Yosef Baraki

Documentaries:

16 Days in Afghanistan (2007), dir. Anwar Hajher

Angels Are Made Of Light (2018), dir. James Longley

Frame by Frame (2015), dir. Alexandria Bombach & Mo Scarpelli

Kabul, City in the Wind (2018), dir. Aboozar Amini

Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) (2019), dir. Carol Dysinger

No Burqas Behind Bars (2012), dir. Maryam Ebrahimi & Nima Sarvestani

The Silhouettes (2020), dir. Afsaneh Salari

Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), dir. Alex Gibney*

A Thousand Girls Like Me (2018), dir. Sahra Mani

What Tomorrow Brings (2015), dir. Beth Murphy

- Sahraa Karimi's account of escaping from Kabul

- The women’s film collective Women Make Movies (WMM) based out of New York is streaming nine films that touch upon the lives of Afghan women from their catalogue for free during the month of August.

*This is the only film that I will include that discusses Western intervention in Afghanistan as it is a powerful critique of the topic; and I have consciously excluded most other documentaries that almost exclusively focus on the experiences of Western military soldiers which do not matter in the slightest.

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To All the Film Communities in The World and Who Loves Film and Cinema!

My name is Sahraa Karimi, a film director and the current general director of Afghan Film, the only stated-owned film company established in 1968.

I write to you with a broken heart and a deep hope that you can join me in protecting my beautiful people, especially filmmakers from the Taliban. In the last few weeks, the Taliban have gained control of so many provinces. They have massacred our people, they kidnapped many children, they sold girls as child brides to their men, they murdered a woman for her attire, they gauged the eyes of a woman, they tortured and murdered one of our beloved comedians, they murdered one of our historian poets, they murdered the head of culture and media for the government, they have been assassinating people affiliated with the government, they hung some of our men publicly, they have displaced hundreds of thousands of families. The families are in camps in Kabul after fleeing these provinces, and they are in unsanitary condition. There is looting in the camps and babies dying because they don't have milk. It is a humanitarian crisis, and yet the world is silent.

We have grown accustomed to this silence, yet we know it is not fair. We know that this decision to abandon our people is wrong, that this hasty troop withdrawal is a betrayal of our people and all that we did when Afghans won the Cold War for the west. Our people were forgotten then, leading up to the Taliban's dark rule, and now, after twenty years of immense gains for our country and especially our younger generations, all could be lost again in this abandonment.

We need your voice. The media, governments, and the world humanitarian organizations are conveniently silent as if this "Peace deal" with the Taliban was ever legitimate. It was never legitimate. Recognizing them gave them the confidence to come back to power. The Taliban have been brutalizing our people throughout the entire process of the talks. Everything that I have worked so hard to build as a filmmaker in my country is at risk of falling. If the Taliban take over they will ban all art. I and other filmmakers could be next on their hit list. They will strip women's rights, we will be pushed into the shadows of our homes and our voices, our expression will be stified into silence. When the Taliban were in power, zero girls were in school. Since then there are over 9 million Afghan girls in school. This is incredible Herat, the third-largest city which just fell to the Taliban had nearly 50% women in its university. These are incredible gains that the world hardly knows about. Just in these few weeks, the Taliban have destroyed many schools and 2 million girls are forced now out of school again.

Everything that I have worked so hard to build as a filmmaker in my country is at risk of falling. If the Taliban take over they will ban all art. I and other filmmakers could be next on their hit list. They will strip women's rights, we will be pushed into the shadows of our homes and our voices, our expression will be stified into silence. When the Taliban were in power, zero girls were in school. Since then there are over 9 million Afghan girls in school. This is incredible Herat, the third-largest city which just fell to the Taliban had nearly 50% women in its university. These are incredible gains that the world hardly knows about. Just in these few weeks, the Taliban have destroyed many schools and 2 million girls are forced now out of school again.

I do not understand this world. I do not understand this silence. I will stay and fight for my country, but I cannot do it alone. I need allies like you. Please help us get this world to cage about what is happening to us. Please help us by informing your countries' most important media what is going on here in Afghanistan. Be our voices outside Afghanistan. If the Taliban take over Kabul, we may not have access to the internet or any communication tool at all. Please engage your filmmakers, artists to support us to be our voice.

This war is not a civil war, this is a proxy war, this is an imposed war and it is the result of the US deal with the Taliban. Please as much as you can share this fact with your media and write about us on your social media.

The world should not turn its back on us. We need your support and your voice on behalf of Afghan women, children, artists, and filmmakers. This support would be the greatest help we need right now.

Please help us get this world to not abandon Afghanistan. Please help us before the Taliban take over Kabul. We have such little time, maybe days. Thank you so much. I appreciate your pure true heart so dearly.

With regard,

Şahraa Karimi

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Sahraa Karimi in Twitter:

A friend of mine sent me this. Just sharing it here.

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MESSAGGIO DISPERATO DELLA REGISTA #SahraaKarimi

Prima della caduta di Kabul aveva diffuso questo comunicato:

“A tutte le comunità cinematografiche del mondo e a chi ama il #cinema!

Vi scrivo con il cuore spezzato e la speranza che possiate unirvi a me nel proteggere la mia bella gente, specialmente chi fa cinema. Nelle ultime settimane hanno preso il controllo di così tante province. Hanno massacrato il nostro popolo, hanno rapito molti bambini, hanno venduto #bambine come spose minori ai loro uomini, hanno assassinato una donna per il suo abbigliamento, hanno misurato gli occhi di una donna, hanno torturato e assassinato uno dei nostri amati comici, hanno assassinato uno dei nostri poeti storici, hanno assassinato il capo della cultura e dei media per il governo… hanno sfollato centinaia di migliaia di famiglie…

I media, i governi e le organizzazioni umanitarie mondiali tacciono come se questo ‘accordo di pace’ con i talebani fosse legittimo. Non è mai stato legittimo… Se i talebani prenderanno il sopravvento vieteranno ogni arte… Spoglieranno i diritti delle #donne, saremo spinti nell'ombra delle nostre case e delle nostre voci, la nostra espressione sarà soffocata nel silenzio…

Non capisco questo mondo. Non capisco questo silenzio. Io resterò a combattere per il mio paese, ma da sola non ce la faccio. Ho bisogno di alleati/e. Per favore aiutateci a far sì che questo mondo si preoccupi di quello che ci sta succedendo…

Siate le nostre voci fuori dall'Afghanistan. Se i talebani prendono il sopravvento su Kabul, potremmo non avere accesso a internet o a nessun strumento di comunicazione… Per favore per quanto potete condividere questo fatto con i vostri media e scrivete di noi sui vostri social. Il mondo non dovrebbe voltarci le spalle… Aiutateci prima che i talebani prendano il sopravvento su Kabul. Abbiamo così poco tempo, forse giorni.

Grazie mille. Apprezzo così tanto il vostro cuore puro e vero.

Sahraa Karimi, صحرا كريمي”

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Fate girare per quanto potete. È

l’appello straziante della regista afghana #SahraaKarimi:

“A tutte le comunità del mondo

Vi scrivo con il cuore spezzato e la speranza che possiate unirvi a me nel proteggere la mia bella gente. Nelle ultime settimane hanno preso il controllo di così tante province. Hanno massacrato il nostro popolo, hanno rapito molti bambini, hanno venduto bambine come spose minorenni ai loro uomini, hanno assassinato donne per il loro abbigliamento, hanno torturato e assassinato uno dei nostri amati comici, hanno assassinato uno dei nostri poeti storici, hanno assassinato il capo della cultura e dei media per il governo, hanno assassinato persone affiliate al governo, hanno appeso pubblicamente alcuni dei nostri uomini, hanno sfollato centinaia di migliaia di famiglie…

I media, i governi e le organizzazioni umanitarie mondiali tacciono come se questo “accordo di pace” con i talebani fosse legittimo. Non è mai stato legittimo… Se i talebani hanno preso il sopravvento, vieteranno anche ogni arte… Spoglieranno i diritti delle donne, saremo spinti nell'ombra delle nostre case e delle nostre voci, la nostra espressione sarà soffocata …

Non capisco questo mondo. Non capisco questo silenzio. Io resterò a combattere per il mio paese, ma da sola non ce la faccio. Ho bisogno di alleati/e. Per favore aiutateci a far sì che questo mondo si ‘preoccupi di quello che ci sta succedendo…

Siate le nostre voci fuori dall'Afghanistan.

Non avremo accesso a internet o a nessuno strumento di comunicazione… Per favore per quanto potete condividere questo fatto con i vostri media e scrivete di noi sui vostri social. Il mondo non dovrebbe voltarci le spalle…aiutateci

Grazie mille. Apprezzo così tanto il vostro cuore puro e vero.

Sahraa Karimi, صحرا كريمي”

Facciamo arrivare ovunque il suo messaggio, è una delle cose che possiamo fare.

[olumsuzsozler]

Taliban, insanları öldürerek ilerlemesini sürdürüyor. Eğer Taliban ülkeyi ele geçirirse bütün sanatı yasaklayacak. Ben ve diğer yönetmenler onların hedef listesinde yer alabiliriz.

Sahraa Karimi Bu Dinde Sinema yok, Müzik yok, Kadın yok, Çocuk yok, Tİyatro yok, Sanat yok, Resim yok, İnternet yok, Kitap yok, Düşünmek yok, Soru sormak yok, Sorgulamak yok, Aklını işletmek yok, Mantık yok, Felsefe yok, Şiir yok, Edebiyat yok, Bilim yok... Güzellik adına ne varsa, hiç birisi yok!! Ne var?

Öldür döv kes biç taşla yine öldür kes biç yine döv öldür öldür öldür. Yer yüzünün en zararlı en tehlikeli zihniyeti bu. Oradaki halk bile kendi şerrinden kaçıyor canını kurtarmak için daha özgür ülkelere sığınıyorlar. İyide bu Melanet dini hala kimler ne hakla savunur. İnsanlık suçu işlediklerini ne zaman anlıyacaklar?!