Through the decades, downtown Kabul’s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still ...

Sahraa Karimi, who escaped Kabul after the Taliban took power, will talk about the situation facing her colleagues inside the country and those living as refugees: "We cannot let the world forget." By ...

A sign at Hollywood Gate, formerly a CIA-run complex in Kabul, Afghanistan, reads, "Today is September 12, 2001," a reminder that a day prior America was attacked by Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda ...

CANNES, France — When a young woman without a veil walks down a street in Afghanistan, an old man passing by turns to face the wall and chant a prayer for forgiveness. For him, just seeing a woman's ...

Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi won best director honors in the World Cinema section at Sundance for their debut feature, which has its European premiere at Karlovy Vary. By Scott Roxborough Europe ...

The Ariana Cinema in Kabul, the capital, had remained closed, save for occasional propaganda movies, since 2021, when the ...