Best Films of The First Afghanistan Student Film Festival Announced

Jury members of Afghanistan Student Film Festival included from Latif Ahmadi, Ibrahim Arify and Roya Sadat that selected 3 films as First prize, second prize and 3rd prize from between 12 short films.

1. Silence / Sara Motamedi

2. Guard of Shadows / Aref Alizadeh

3. A Gift from my Brother / Wais & Khadem Hussein

THe first Afghanistan Student Film Festival held on 28 to 29 October 2013 in Art department, Kabul university. 

One Jury, One film in competition and 9 short films in Kabul Fresh in 15th Mumbai International Film Festival.

Afghanistan may be in turbulence but it is producing some of the world’s best cinema.

Sediq Barmak famous filmmaker of our country will be one of jury member in Mumbai International Film Festival this year. Also One future film has been selected in international competition. 

Taking note of this, the 15th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival will show nine films under a segment called “Kabul Fresh.” Films will screened in 'Kabul Fresh: 

1. Eye witness / Rafi Behroozian & Alka Sadat

2. Driving Test / Mahbouba Ebrahimi

3. A Time Called Oldness / Hamed Alizadeh

4. End of Love / Ghafar Azad

5. Life Imprisonment / Gholamreza Majedi

6. One Wish / Mohammad Aref Abidian

7. The Glasses / Seyyed Hussein Mousavi

8. Kabul Ambulance / Taj Mohammad Bakhtari

9. Amir and Sara / Sayed Jalal Husseini

This is the second year that the festival will see films which mark the blossoming of the film movement in Afghanistan. Over 200 films from 65 countries will be shown at the Festival between October 17 and 24.

12 films has been selected for the first kabul student film festival.

Kabul Student Film Festival committee selection selected 12 films through 51 films for competition.

The selection committee members , including Mr. Siddiq Barmak, Mr. Mamnon Maqsodi, Mr. Aref Bahram, Mss. Alka Sadat, Mss. Sahra Mousavi and Mr. Hassan Fazili selected 12 movies from total 51 movies which the festival received this year from students of universities of Afghanistan.

THe first Kabul Student Film Festival will held on 28 to 29 Octobe 2013 in Art department, Kabul univercity. 

5 short films from Afghanistan in Eastern Breeze International Film Festival.

Short fiction; "The Out Post" / Sayed Jalal Husseini ; "The Unknown" / Abdulqafar Azad

"End of Story" / Ghafar Azad ; "The Death Row" / Maryam Ebrahimi Short Documentary and 

"The beggar" / Mohammad Reza Gholami has been selected on Eastern Breeze International Film Festival.

Eastern Breeze International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Toronto, Canada, which previews short and mid-length films of all genres, including documentary, animation, fiction and experimental, from around the world which contain an eastern taste or philosophy. This is a public film festival that takes place every October in Toronto.

Eastern Breeze International Film Festival aims to give new talent an opportunity to have their work screened for cinema fans who would be unable to find these films in their local movie theatres. EBIFF   strives to highlight the enigmatic eastern arts and cultures, introducing the existential humanist, and soulful characteristics of these bracing cultures in the context of a modern, Western Canada. By helping to bridge that gap, we celebrate Canada’s rich multicultural community.

The festival will highlight contributions from the quickly growing Canadian communities that come from the East. Today across Canada, these communities number 12 million people from Asia and the Middle East. In Ontario alone, over three million share an eastern culture, and it is to honour and display their cinematic contributions that Eastern Breeze rolls out this fall.

Eastern Breeze International Film Festival will held on 18 to 25 October in Toronto, Canada.

Afghanistan Human Rights International Film Festival Films has been selected

Afghanistan Short Film News Base(ASFNB) - Afghanistan Human Rights International Film Festival selection committee has finished for film selection. They have selected 46 films among 380 films from national and international films. They have selected 24 films for national and 23 films for international. Also 6 films has been selected for out of competition.

Afghanistan competition:
1. Wajme / Barmak Akram

2. My Sin / Ramin Yoosufi

3. Life imprisonment / Gholamreza Majedi

4. The Broken destiny of poetry / Neamat Haidari and Rahmat Haidari

5. A Wish / Mohammad (Aref) Abedian

6. On the String of forgetfulness / Aboozar Amini

7. Eyewitness - Rafee Behroozian & Alka Sadat

8. Afghan Women Behind the Wheel / Sahraa Karimi

9. Dorahi / Abdul Wahed Bakhtiar

10. The icy sun / Ramin Mohammadi

11. Swap / S. Masood Eslami

12. All human beings are member of one framel!? / Javid Merzaei

13. Little Afghanistan / Basir Seerat

14. The last president Jamil Jalla

15. Travel to The Dark / Wahed Habibi & Jalal Jamshidi

16. House 111 / Aziz Deldar

17. Guard of Shadows / Mohammad Arif Alizada

18. Story of a documentary / Sayed Zia Qasemi

19. End of love / Ghafar Azad

20. A women singing in the desert / Alka Sadat

21. The dog married to sheep / Hassan Fazili

22. The Unknown / Abdul Ghafar Faizyar

23. The life is beautiful / Sear Noorzad

24. Play on the play / Lajaward Haqiqi


International competition: 
1. The story of the book - Roberto Orazi / Italy

2. The Boy Mir - Phil Grabsky / UK

3. The Weight of the word - Costanza quatriglio / Italy

4. Iran southwestern - Mohammad Reza Fartousi / Iran

5. Daily Check-up - Mriganka Sonal / India

6. Duam - Abeer Zeibak Haddad/ Israel

7. Fire in the blood - Dylan Mohan Gray / India

8. White night - IRIT GAL / Israel

9. Platform no.5 - C. VANAJA / India

10. A drop of sunshine - APARNA SANYAL / India

11. Ancient Nomads - MARSBEK BUZURMANKULO / Kyrgyzstan

12. No man`s land - MICHAEL GRAVERSEN / Denmark

13. Much ado about knotting - GEETIKA NARAG ABBASI & ANANDANA KAPUR / India

14. Night of silence - REIS CELIK / Turkey

15. Dance with me - MARYAM PIRBAND / Iran

16. For what… - BATTULGA.S / Mongolia

17. While the wind blows - SERGEY POTAPOV / Russia

18. The 40th door / ELCHIN MUSAOGLU / Azerbaijan

19. If only everyone / NATALIA BELYAUSKENE / Armenia

20. Der kandidat / YOSEF BARAKI / Germany

21. Complicit / GAVIN HOFFMAN / Ireland

22. True Noon / NOSIR SAIDOV / Tajikistan

23.Finding Hilly wood / LEAH WARSHAWSKI / USA


Out of Competition:
1. Not at home / Shahrbano Sadat

2. The Virgin Minarets / Farhad Rezaie

3. Light and darkness / Fardin Barakzai

4. School Bus / Maryam Nabil Kamal

5. We come home / Ariana Delawari

6. Dusty Night / Ali Hazara

Second Afghanistan International Human Rights Film Festival will held on 5-10 October 2013 in Kabul.