Media, Afghanistan: Half Value Life

Check out this award-winning, Afghanistan-made full length documentary film produced by Alka Sadat!   Synopsis: A Girl listening to the radio from home, a woman walking at her workplace. The camera follows their steps in parallel, focuses on the mirror they look...
A Filmmaker’s Critique of The Fruit of our Labour

A Filmmaker’s Critique of The Fruit of our Labour

[Ed. 7/21: CSFilm has removed the last names of Afghans and the images of those still in the country due to the deteriorating security situation.] Check out this insightful article originally published in REORIENT Magazine—a publication that covers Middle Eastern arts...

AFGHANISTAN – NUMBER OF WOMEN JAILED FOR FLEEING ABUSE, SOARS

More women imprisoned for ‘moral crimes’ as fears grow that hard-won rights are at risk as western troops head home. By Emma Graham-Harrison 21 May 2013, Guardian Newspaper The number of Afghan women jailed for fleeing forced and abusive marriages, and...

With Bags of Cash, C.I.A. Seeks Influence in Afghanistan, NYT

“The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan,” one American official said, “was the United States.” By MATTHEW ROSENBERG Published: April 28, 2013, NYT KABUL, Afghanistan — For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on...