FILMS
- Why didn’t anybody tell me it would become this bad in Afghanistan
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Documenting the tension between native citizens, immigrant youth and the police in Amsterdam, this is the first feature-length work to be shot on a mobile phone and premiere at a major film festival. With short Disaster Drills
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- Cyrus Frisch
- Spotlight
- Holland/Namibia
- 2007
- Wonders Are Many
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Award-winning documentarian Jon Else provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of Doctor Atomic, an opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer created in 2006 for the San Francisco Opera by composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars.
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- Jon Else
- Spotlight
- USA
- 2007
- The Yacoubian Building
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Residents of a historic apartment complex in Cairo fatefully cross paths in this sprawling epic, an ambitious mix of soap opera intrigue and sociopolitical critique. Featuring numerous icons of Arab cinema, this tragicomic treat is the biggest-budget Egyptian film in history.
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- Marwan Hamed
- New Directors
- Egypt
- 2006
- Zolykha’s Secret
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This remarkably assured and deeply humane feature debut is a moving story about a close-knit family in Afghanistan trying to survive under vicious and oppressive Taliban rule.
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- Horace Ahmad Shansab
- New Directors
- Afghanistan
- 2006
