Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roya Sadat’s “Sima’s Song,” which world premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival, chronicles a pivotal moment in Afghanistan’s history ...

Natalie Halla's film, premiering at doc fest CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, follows Manizha Bakhtari, her Daughters program and other work since the Taliban took power in 2021. By Georg Szalai Global Business ...

Actress Jennifer Lawrence revealed how she defied both friends and critics to produce her new documentary on women in Afghanistan. The Oscar-winning actress recently promoted the film "Bread & Roses," ...

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 ...

With Bread and Roses, Jennifer Lawrence hopes to shed light on the Taliban‘s control in Afghanistan, where women and girls have been stripped of many rights. The Oscar winner, who produced the Sahra ...

A film from Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai documenting the oppression of Afghan women by the Taliban was “emotionally challenging” to complete, Afghan filmmaker ...

Filmmaker Sahra Mani has a difficult story to tell, and for many women, it can be seen as a cautionary tale. Her documentary Bread & Roses follows the trials and tribulations of three educated women ...

“This is a matter of saving the culture of Afghanistan,” Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf said to a parliamentary committee this morning as he pled with the UK government to house dozens of ...

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 ...

An Emmy-winning National Geographic documentary about Afghanistan's final days under US occupation is now at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit, after a featured Afghan was identified by the ...