STORY: "If you talk about the cinema of Afghanistan during the past 20 years, before the fall of Kabul, you cannot deny our names. We are part of the history, like, we women filmmakers." Three years ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The Afghan president canceled his official visit to Norway amid concerns following Mideast riots over a film that ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, officials said Thursday.

The State Department gave the celebrity treatment Thursday to the 14-year-old stars of “Buzkashi Boys,” an Oscar-nominated short film made in Kabul. The screening filled up quickly with State ...

ROME (Reuters) - Afghan director Siddiq Barmak uses irony and grotesque scenes in "Opium War," his film about the strains between local people and Western soldiers fighting the Taliban. But he said he ...

When you hear the term "film premiere," you are likely to think of Hollywood or New York — not Kabul. But just last week, an award-winning short film was screened in the Afghan capital, and for a good ...

After an airline denied her entry into Saudi Arabia to present her film “Sima’s Song,” which is playing in competition at the Red Sea Film Festival, Afghan filmmaker Roya Sadat is now set to visit the ...

NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) - When the coffin of Afghan journalist and "fixer" Ajmal Naqshbandi was carried through the streets of Kabul in 2007, locals wailed that the world didn't care. Sign up ...

How do you make a documentary when you can't film in person — and even hiring a cameraperson is risky? That was the challenge for the award-winning Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who left the country ...

Sign up for our Metro US email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! KYIV (Reuters) – Sahraa Karimi had been waiting ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Now the 14-year-old Afghan boy with bright green ...

Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Now the 14-year-old Afghan boy with bright green eyes is getting ready for a ...