"Death to the Camera" by Sayed Qasem Husseini SELECTED TO 16th International Short Film Festival Winterthur Switzerland 2012

Another short film from Afghanistan in International Short Film Festival.

As from 2012, the festival will be extended by one day: the 16th edition of the InternationalShort Film Festival will take place from 6 to 11 November 2012.

About film: A camera moves among woman working their last day on a job site. As they joke and fight – accusing each other of being prostitutes, liars, and racists – the mood repeatedly shifts between belly laughs and rage. The women are left waiting for hours for their pay by the charity that administers the cash-for-work program. As they wait, they consider what debts they’ll pay off, what food they’ll buy, and how they’ll stay warm during the approaching winter. There is lively discussion about what happens to all the aid that never reaches them, and whether Karzai is a crook or a servant of the people.

Is the camera revealing anything truthful, or simply inciting these women to present what they think ‘the other’ wants to hear – or what might get them something from the world on the other side of the camera? Who is on the other side of that camera anyway?
"Death to the Camera" Produced by CS Film.

"Check Point" By Hamed Alizadeh in Taiwan and Italy

"Check Point" Short Documentary by Hamed Alizadeh in The 8th Taiwan International Documentary Festival and in 53th DEL POPOLI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL.

15 policemen inspect all the cars that enter the city center through Dehbori district. The policemen have been gathered from different provinces to maintain the security of Kabul city, they stay together in 3 green containers with a few facilities of accommodation. They do not know what is exactly happening, because nobody is paying attention to them and informing them about the situation in the city. But they understand and know that the security is the most important issue and essential for the residents of Kabul city and they try to make the city secure...

"The Window" produced

After 2 months "The Window" short fiction film produced.

The story of thirteen years old blind’s boy, which lives in a village.
 Listen to the voice of nature is part of her daily work until he became familiar with music and life of Beethoven with his grandfather’s radio, and he decided to imitate the... "The Window" is 19 min by Hussein Mousavi and Ali Mousavi Azad.

Closing ceremony of The EUNIC Film Festival 2012

In 2010, EUNIC started working on cinema issues in cooperation with Afghan filmmakers. In 2012, EUNIC Afghanistan and the Afghan Ministry of Information and culture launched their first common project, the "EUNIC Young Filmmakers Found", in order to support creative talents and emerging filmmakers to develop their understanding  of the art and part ice of filmmaking. 

Financial and professional support and workshop sessions encouraged 11 young Afghan filmmakers, all of them younger than 30 years, selected form nearly 200 filmmakers, to realize a short film (20 minutes maximum) and to tell their stories using film as a creative tool.

Winners of EUNIC Film Festival 2012

Best Fiction "bicycle" by Ali Ibrahimi
Best Documentary "Koche Kharabat" by Ahmad Monir Rasoli
Best Animation "Nawarha" by Lajeward Haqiqi


About EUNIC Young Filmmakers Fund 

The programme

The EUNIC Young Filmmakers Fund aims at helping creative talents and emerging filmmakers develop their understanding of the art and practice of filmmaking. Financial and professional support provided through a financial grant and workshop sessions should encourage young Afghan filmmakers up to 30 years old to realize a short film (20 minutes maximum) and to tell their stories using film as creative tool. The project should also provide networking opportunities with other filmmakers, guidance and participation in festivals. 

EUNIC Afghanistan

EUNIC is the network of the international cultural relations institutes from the member states of the European Union. They seek to facilitate cultural co-operation; to create lasting partnerships between professionals, to encourage greater understanding and awareness of the diverse European cultures and to encourage greater language learning.

The British Council, the Institut Francais d’Afghanistan (IFA) and the Goethe-Institut Afghanistan are forming the EUNIC-Cluster in Afghanistan.

All institutes look back to long time of partnership with the Afghan cultural scene reaching back into the 1960s and are now sharing their experiences with their local partners among various other projects in the Afghan National Theatre Festival and the International Documentary and Short Film Festival.