Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Afghanistan's Cinema History, Some 7,000 Films, Saved From The Taliban

"When the Taliban charged in to Afghanistan's state-run film company in the mid-1990s intent on destroying all the movies, Habibullah Ali risked everything to save them. He hid thousands of reels of footage showcasing Afghanistan's rich cultural history ... Two decades later those reels, which include long-lost movies and documentary images of Afghanistan before it was ravaged by violence, are being made available to watch again through digitisation."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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