Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shahrbanoo Sadat’s “No Good Men,” which opens the Berlin Film Festival, mixes romance, politics and humor in ways that Afghan ...

KABUL, May 17 (Reuters) - Clouds of hashish and cigarette smoke float across a screen showing a dancing Pakistani woman, who evokes yowls of excitement from the hundreds of Afghan men passing their ...

Laila Mahmudi, from left, Liam Hussaini, front left, director Shahrbanoo Sadat and Katja Adomeit pose for photographers at the photo call for the film 'No Good Men' during the International Film ...

Farhad Khan escaped Kabul while shooting his next movie in the city. Now, life in Pakistan as an artist with refugee status ...

FILE - Rahmatullah Ezati plays back a film reel in the projection room of the historic Ariana Cinema in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 8, 2021, before it was demolished in December 2025 by Taliban ...

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 ...

This article was written by Elina Qalam for Hasht-e Subh Daily and published on October 29, 2025. An edited version of the article is published on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement.

The feted star of an internationally-acclaimed film, Afghan actress Marina Golbahari, and her husband have been chased from their home to the brink of suicide in a filthy French asylum shelter after ...

Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Now the 14-year-old Afghan boy with bright green eyes is getting ready for a ...

BERLIN (AP) — A surprising and touching Afghan political rom-com that is said to feature the first ever on-screen kiss in an Afghan movie opens the 76th Berlin Film Festival Thursday. Set in a Kabul ...