'The minute the world stops looking at Afghanistan, that’s when we’ll see what the Taliban really do,' warns one documentarian, days after the hardline extremist group seized control of the country.
“I write to you with a broken heart and a deep hope that you can join me in protecting my beautiful people, especially filmmakers, from the Taliban,” she wrote. “They have massacred our people, they kidnapped many children, they sold girls as child brides to their men. … It’s a humanitarian crisis, and yet the world is silent. … They will ban all art. I and other filmmakers could be next on their hit list.
“All of us Afghans, especially the ones living in Afghanistan, are all just holding a collective breath to see what unfolds,” says U.S.-based filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi, whose 2018 documentarychronicled the struggles of two Afghan women — a member of parliament and a TV journalist — as they attempted to help reform their country.
For Hassan Fazili, who developed theater plays, documentaries, short films and several TV serials while in Afghanistan but is now based in Germany, the cultural future for his home country is as bleak as can be.
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