Shahrbanoo Sadat’s “No Good Men,” which opens the Berlin Film Festival, mixes romance, politics and humor in ways that Afghan cinema has never done before. I wanted to make a romantic comedy because I ...

The Berlin Film Festival 2026 will kick off with the world premiere of No Good Men, the third feature film from Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat, on Feb. 12 at the Berlinale Palast. "Shahrbanoo Sadat ...

In 1988, Afghanistan sent its first cosmonaut into space. Yes, really. Abdul Ahad Momand went where no Afghan had gone before - or has gone since - making Pashto the fourth language ever spoken beyond ...

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 ...

Ahead of the Locarno premiere of 'Forgotten Spaceman,' the London-based actor-director discusses his accidental documentary, a startling family connection and Afghanistan's "buried" history of ...

The creatives behind the films, backed by the grant scheme unveiled last year by Cate Blanchett and IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund, also address displacement and identity. By Georg Szalai Global Business ...

* Film explores culture clash between Afghans, Westerners * Barmak does not see chance for peace any time soon * Set up centre to help young film-makers By Silvia Aloisi ROME, Oct 26 (Reuters) - ...

Shahrbanoo Sadat's "No Good Men," which opens the Berlin Film Festival, mixes romance, politics and humor in ways that Afghan cinema has never done before. It's the tale of a camerawoman at a Kabul TV ...

Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat’s romantic comedy “No Good Men” has been set as this year’s Berlin Film Festival opener. The German-backed film, set inside a Kabul newsroom during the democratic era ...