'Naive optimist' opens Berlin Film Festival with Afghan romantic comedy

Are there any good men in Afghanistan?"I do believe there are good men, but I also believe that we need more good men in the ...

Berlin Opener ‘No Good Men’ Director Shahrbanoo Sadat on Making Afghanistan’s First Film Featuring an Onscreen Kiss (And a Vibrator)

Shahrbanoo Sadat’s “No Good Men,” which opens the Berlin Film Festival, mixes romance, politics and humor in ways that Afghan cinema has never done before. It’s the tale of a camerawoman at a Kabul ...

Love is found in unexpected places at the Berlin Film Festival

A surprising and touching Afghan political rom-com that is said to feature the first ever on-screen kiss in an Afghan movie opens the 76th Berlin Film Festival Thursday. Set in a ...
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Afghanistan's historic Ariana Cinema torn down to make way for shopping center

KABUL, Afghanistan — Through the decades, downtown Kabul’s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still standing to entertain Afghans with Bollywood movies ...