No Good Men

No Good Men 2026

1

2021, Afghanistan right before the Taliban’s return. Naru, the only camerawoman at Kabul’s main TV station, struggles to keep custody of her three-year-old son after leaving her serial cheater husband. Convinced no good men exist in her country, Naru is caught off guard when Qodrat, Kabul TV’s most important journalist, gives her a career opportunity. As the two crisscross the city reporting on its last days of freedom, sparks fly and Naru starts to doubt herself: could there actually be a good man out there?

2026

Osama

Osama 2004

6.98

After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.

2004

Kamay

Kamay 2024

10.00

In the remote mountains of central Afghanistan, a Hazara family embarks on a journey for truth and justice after their daughter Zahra mysteriously dies at Kabul University. Told through the eyes of Zahra's younger sister, Freshta, the film is a moving contemplation of love, loss, and perseverance in spite of increasing unrest on the eve of the Taliban takeover of the country.

2024

Soil And Coral

Soil And Coral 2013

1

A man has left his country when his wife was killed during the war. Now he must go back to Kabul for wedding of one of his daughters. Unwillingly he gets involved in an internal conflict...

2013

An Afghan Love Story

An Afghan Love Story 2013

6.30

It’s snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begin a clandestine relationship—they’re playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules they are breaking. After Wajma discovers she is pregnant, her certainty that Mustafa will marry her falters, and word of their dalliance gets out. Her father must decide between his culturally held right to uphold family honor and his devotion to his daughter.

2013

Firedancer

Firedancer 2003

1

For centuries the Afghan people threw back all invaders. But in 1979, the Russians invaded with planes and tanks. 5 million Afghans fled the country. 300,000 lucky ones made it to North America. They escaped the Russians but not themselves. This film depicts the lives of the members of two families in New York.

2003

Three Songs for Benazir

Three Songs for Benazir 2021

6.20

The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced persons in Kabul—struggles to balance his dreams of being the first from his tribe to join the Afghan National Army with the responsibilities of starting a family. Even as Shaista’s love for Benazir is palpable, the choices he must make to build a life with her have profound consequences.

2021

Earth and Ashes

Earth and Ashes 2004

5.60

Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk, as they make their way to the coal mine where Dastaguir's son Murad works. Dastaguir must tell Murad that the rest of their family were all killed in a recent bomb attack.

2004

The Orphanage

The Orphanage 2019

6.85

A historic drama with musical Bollywood scenes. Kabul in the early 90s. Soviet values rule the country. Women can wear miniskirts, children can go to school and people can go to the cinema, concerts as well as universities. Life in Afghanistan is similar to life in the Western world. 14 years old Qodrat sells cinema tickets on the black market in the streets of Kabul. After selling a ticket to a secret police officer by mistake, he ends up at the Soviet orphanage, where he fakes his identity at the registration, in hope of getting more power. Everyday life for Qodrat is about friendships, falling in love, doing naughty things and going on adventures – just like it is for children in other parts of the world. However, behind the safe walls of the orphanage the world they once knew is drastically changing as the Mujahideens start the civil war.

2019

Mina Walking

Mina Walking 2015

10.00

Saddled by a senile grandfather and a neglectful father, Mina, an impulsive twelve-year-old Afghan street seller sees her future slipping away when she is forced to neglect her education and walk the streets of Kabul to support her fragmented family. In the seven days that follow her life, Mina’s quest to emancipate her father from the claws of a local drug dealer and her attempt to secretly attend school underlines the current struggle of a young generation of Afghans trying to shake off the echoes of oppression from the Taliban era that continues to haunt those who bore witness to it.

2015

Etilaat Roz

Etilaat Roz 2022

5.00

For ten years, the journalists of the Etilaat Roz have been making the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Kabul—entirely transparent, and constantly on the lookout for abuses in society and politics. But what do you do when this work becomes practically impossible? This film follows the team as the city is recaptured by the Taliban.

2022

Midnight Traveler

Midnight Traveler 2019

5.92

In 2015, the Taliban put a price on the head of Hassan, a filmmaker, who was forced to flee Afghanistan with his wife and two young daughters. Using their camera phones, the fugitives show first-hand the many dangers refugees face when seeking asylum in a safe place.

2019

When Pomegranates Howl

When Pomegranates Howl 2021

6.75

Shot on the streets of Kabul, Granaz Moussavi’s (My Tehran For Sale) outstanding new feature is in the tradition of the great child-centred works of the 1980s when filmmakers such as Kiarostami, Panahi and Amir Naderi (to whom this film is dedicated) were putting Iranian cinema in the forefront of world production. 9-year-old Hewad is an irrepressible, street-smart kid who is energetically working every angle, hustling everything from pomegranate juice to amulets to protection from the evil eye. His real ambition is to be a movie star, and this comes a step closer when he meets an Australian photographer. But in a city where every family has a member who has been “martyred,” the streets are as perilous as they are vivid. Australia’s recent involvement with Afghanistan has been mixed, to say the best. The deeply-felt humanism of this film might just be our most effective contribution to that troubled country.

2021

Adam Khor

Adam Khor 1991

1

Horrible hairy behemoth on a gruesome rampage in this wild Pashto shocker

1991

11.000 km from New York

11.000 km from New York 2006

1

In November 2001, the fire of the war forced thousands of Afghan people to leave their homes and move up to the islands of the Panj River, which border Afghanistan and Tajikistan. This film is a beautifully pictured short story about these Afghan refugees who belong to different nationalities and social groups. They are all trying to keep their humanity in an inhumane situation by doing the best they can do.

2006

Tailor Story

Tailor Story 2011

1

The third of George Gittoes Love City trilogy made with actors and crew in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In this third chapter, Ghuty takes her turn in the spotlight. Also a media trailblazer, she hosts a radio call-in show devoted to love stories and song dedications. When two star-crossed lovers use her show to tell their tragic tale, her ratings take-off. Their story takes on additional significance for her, as she pursues love with Zaki, a fixer working with the American military, against her parents’ wishes.

2011

Khate Sewom

Khate Sewom 1970

1

Story of young students from diverse cultures and from different Afghan ethnic groups, who make their worldviews and theories and are struggling with severe contradictions and challenges that disrupt the order of their daily lives.

1970

Afghanistan's Next Top Model

Afghanistan's Next Top Model 1970

1

In 2007, a local TV station in Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan aired a reality television show modeled after the America's Next Top Model. International media took notice and dubbed the show Afghanistan's Next Top Model.

1970

Baghch-e-Simsim

Baghch-e-Simsim 1970

1

Baghch-e-Simsim is a Pashto and Dari children's television series based on the American Sesame Street, which was officially launched in Afghanistan on December 1, 2011. Characters appearing will include Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Grover as Kajkoal, and Ernie as Hadi along with Bert. However, it was reported that Oscar the Grouch and Count von Count will not be featured due to cultural differences. The project is funded by the Embassy of the United States in Kabul and is produced in consultation with Afghanistan's Ministry of Education. The show's producer is Tania Farzana, an Afghan-American, and its initial 26 half-hour episodes are being aired in Dari language on locally owned Tolo TV. The Pashto version will be aired on Lemar TV. Education in Afghanistan is very low and Baghch-e-Simsim is designed to help with that, especially Afghan children because about 45% of the population is younger than 15. Sesame Street was first introduced to Afghanistan in 2004 as Koche Sesame, which was shown on state-owned television and as a teaching tool within some schools in the form of DVDs. One of the segments was "Grover Around the World", based directly on the Global Grover segments of the American original. The new Baghch-e-Simsim version "will be partly filmed in Afghanistan with the rest lifted from other versions in Muslim countries including Egypt and Bangladesh", as well as Mexico and Russia.

1970

Afghan Star

Afghan Star 1970

1.00

Afghan Star is a popular reality television show which searches for the most talented singers across Afghanistan. The program is broadcast on Tolo TV channel.

1970

Ganjina

Ganjina 1970

1

Ganjina is the Afghani version of the television gameshow Deal or No Deal. It premiered on May 30, 2010 and is broadcast on Tolo TV. The show was earlier hosted by the afghani actor Rahim Mehrzad and was later taken over by Mukhtar Lashkari. There are 20 boxes containing prizes from 1 Afghani to 1,000,000 Afghani. There has been three top prize winners. The last episode was aired on May 14, 2013. From May 15 to June 6, 2013 was a rerun of notable episodes, including celebrity editions and two of the top prize winning episodes. On June 8, 2013, the show was replaced by new game show 100 saniye, an Afghani adaption of Divided.

1970

Tabassom

Tabassom 2019

1

Social humor about the living conditions of Afghans living in Europe. Writer and director Khalil Yousefi Actors Saeed Hooshmand Nilab Nova Diana Mirza

2019

مهر مادری

مهر مادری 2020

1

It is a joint Iranian-Afghan series that depicts the love story and immigration problems of several young people and immigrant families in Germany.

2020