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, Afghanistan (AP) — Through the decades, downtown Kabul's Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still standing to entertain Afghans with Bollywood ...

From intimate art exhibitions to powerful documentaries, Afghan creators are reshaping how the world sees their culture and history. Artist Maka Uddin’s debut solo show blends nostalgia, heritage, and ...

The State Department gave the celebrity treatment Thursday to the 14-year-old stars of “Buzkashi Boys,” an Oscar-nominated short film made in Kabul. The screening filled up quickly with State ...

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.

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 ...

"Sadat continues her vital work spotlighting Afghan women’s lives, here bringing romance and touches of humour to a rousingly political story." By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor One of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indian films were particularly popular, as were action movies, while the Ariana also began playing Afghan movies resulting from a revival of the domestic film industry. For Talash, the film director ...