40Braids – Women and Cinema

As headlines blair possible peace talks between the U.S. and the Taliban, and with its intersection of politics and filmmaking, Hassan Fazili’s Midnight Traveler, is bound to be one of the festival circuit’s most discussed pictures this year.

A Documentary About Yazidi Activist Nadia Murad Becomes an Essential Portrait of the Strength Required to Speak Up

Forgotten films of the Cold War era are being brought back to life, in a documentary by Montreal filmmaker Ariel Nasr.

The canadian Film festival presents a documentary film : Harwest moon, in one of the oldest walnut forests in Kyrgyzstan.

Film review: A female indoor soccer player takes her case to court when her husband won’t let her leave the country to play in the biggest match of her life.

A conventional portrait of a highly unconventional woman, Erika Cohn’s documentary “The Judge” has a worthy subject in Kholoud al-Faqih, the first woman to be appointed, in 2009, to the Middle East’s religious courts.

An illustrator captures one of the world’s largest migrations from Tajikistan to Moscow.

A kazakh film ‘The Gentle Indifference of the World’ premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

ABAAD in Lebanon made an animated video, Letters from child brides.

Hindustan Times Gautaman Bhaskaran Pankaj Johar’s Cecilia is centred around the issue of child trafficking in India. The film will be screened at the MAMI (in the 2016 edition) Cecilia alongwith Pankaj Johar and his […]