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.