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Cinema of Afghanistan, the Glossary

Cinema was introduced to Afghanistan at the beginning of the 20th century.^[1]

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Culture of Afghanistan

A Few Cubic Meters of Love

A Few Cubic Meters of Love (چند متر مکعب عشق, Chand Metre Moka'ab Eshgh) is a 2014 Iranian-Afghan romance film written and directed by Jamshid Mahmoudi.

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A Letter to the President

A Letter to the President is a 2017 Afghan drama film written and directed by Roya Sadat.

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Abdul Wahid Nazari

Abdul Wahid Nazari (عبدالواحد نظري) is an Afghan film writer, director and producer.

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Abolfazl Jalili

Abolfazl Jalili (ابوالفضل جلیلی., born 1957 in Saveh, Iran) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter.

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)

The 1989–1992 Afghan Civil War, also known as the First Afghan Civil War, took place between the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the Soviet–Afghan War on 15 February 1989 until 27 April 1992, ending the day after the proclamation of the Peshawar Accords proclaiming a new interim Afghan government which was supposed to start serving on 28 April 1992.

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Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)

The 1992–1996 Afghan Civil War, also known as the Second Afghan Civil War, took place between 28 April 1992—the date a new interim Afghan government was supposed to replace the Republic of Afghanistan of President Mohammad Najibullah—and the Taliban's occupation of Kabul establishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on 27 September 1996.

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Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)

The 1996–2001 Afghan Civil War, also known as the Third Afghan Civil War, took place between the Taliban's conquest of Kabul and their establishing of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on 27 September 1996, and the US and UK invasion of Afghanistan on 7 October 2001: a period that was part of the Afghan Civil War that had started in 1989, and also part of the war (in wider sense) in Afghanistan that had started in 1978.

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Afghan Film

Afghan Film also known as Afghan Film Organization (AFO) is Afghanistan's state-run film company, established in 1968.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Ariana Cinema

Ariana Cinema (سینما آریانا Sīnemā Ārīāna) is a movie theater in Kabul, Afghanistan located near the Pashtunistan Square on the north side of the Kabul river bank.

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Atiq Rahimi

Atiq Rahimi (عتیق رحیمی) (born 26 February 1962 in Kabul) is a French-Afghan writer and filmmaker.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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B movie

A B movie (American English), or B film (British English), is a type of low-budget commercial motion picture.

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Baharestan, Afghanistan

Baharestan is a village in Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan.

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Barmak Akram

Barmak Akram, (برمک اکرم) (born in 1966 in Kabul), is an Afghan filmmaker.

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Behzad Cinema

Behzad Cinema (سینما بهزاد) is the oldest movie theatre in Afghanistan, established by the local government of Kabul.

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Black Kite (film)

Black Kite is a 2017 Afghan-Canadian drama film written and directed by Tarique Qayumi and starring Haji Gul Aser and Leena Alam.

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Buzkashi Boys

Buzkashi Boys is a 2012 film directed by Sam French, and co-produced in Afghanistan and the United States.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Cannes

Cannes (Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera.

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Central Asian and Southern Caucasus Film Festivals Confederation

Central Asian and Southern Caucasus Film Festivals Confederation was founded in 2006.

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Cinema of Central Asia

The Cinema of Central Asia includes the cinema of the five former Soviet Socialist Republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) and Afghanistan.

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Cinema of India

The Cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century.

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Dari

Dari (endonym: دری), Dari Persian (فارسی دری,, or), or Eastern Persian is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan.

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Dharmatma

Dharmatma is a 1975 Hindi thriller movie and the first Bollywood film to be shot in Afghanistan.

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Earth and Ashes

Earth and Ashes (خاکستر و خاک) is a 2004 Afghan film directed and co-written by Atiq Rahimi, based on his book of the same name which was published in 2000.

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Emaan

Emaan is a 2011 Afghan action romance drama film directed and co-produced by Haris Yosufi and starring Rasool Emaan, Tamana Amini and Ghafar Qutbyar.

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Escape from Taliban

Escape from Taliban is a 2003 Indian film directed by Ujjwal Chatterjee.

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Faqir Nabi

Faqir Nabi, also credited as Faqeer Nabi (Afghanistan, – 26 June 2020), was an Afghan film actor whose professional career in Afghan cinema and Bollywood spanned more than 22 years.

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Fereshteh Hosseini

Fereshteh Hosseini (فرشته حسینی; born April 26, 1997) is an Afghan-Iranian actress.

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Feroz Khan (actor)

Feroz Khan (25 September 1939 – 27 April 2009), born Zulfiqar Ali Shah Khan, was an Indian actor, film editor, producer, and director best known for his work in Indian cinema.

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FireDancer

Fire Dancer is a 2002 film directed by an Afghan-American film director Jawed Wassel.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gone with the Wind (film)

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell.

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Habibullah Khan

Habibullah Khan (Pashto/Dari: حبيب الله خان; 3 June 1872 – 20 February 1919) was the Emir of Afghanistan from 1901 until his assassination in 1919.

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Haji Kamran

Haji Kamran is an Afghan actor, best known for his comedic roles in film and television.

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Hamza Shinwari

Amir Hamza Khan Shinwari (اميرحمزه خان), commonly known as Hamza Baba (حمزه بابا) was a prominent Pashto and Urdu language poet, playwright and author.

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Hasiba Ebrahimi

Hasiba Ebrahimi (حسیبا ابراهیمی; born December 21, 1996) is an Afghan actress.

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In This World

In This World is a 2002 British docudrama directed by Michael Winterbottom.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Kabul

Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.

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Kabul Express

Kabul Express is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language adventure thriller film written and directed by documentary film maker Kabir Khan (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films was released on 15 December 2006.

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Kabuli Kid

Kabuli Kid is a 2008 French-Afghan drama film directed and written by Barmak Akram.

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Kandahar (2001 film)

Kandahar (Dari: قندهار, "Qandahar") is a 2001 Iranian film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, set in Afghanistan during the rule of the Taliban.

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Khuda Gawah

Khuda Gawah (also translated and released as God Is My Witness) is a 1992 Indian epic drama film written and directed by Mukul S. Anand.

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Latif Ahmadi

Abdul Latif Ahmadi is an Afghan film director, also known as Engineer Latif Ahmadi.

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Leena Alam

Leena Alam (Persian: لينا علم; /1980) is an Afghan film, television, and theater actress.

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List of Afghan films

A list of notable films produced in Afghanistan.

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List of Afghan submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Afghanistan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 2002, following the fall of the country's previous Taliban government.

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List of cinema of the world

This is a list of cinema of the world by continent and country.

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Mamnoon Maqsoodi

Mamnoon Maqsoodi (ممنون مقصودي) is a well known Afghan actor.

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Marina Golbahari

Marina Golbahari (مارینا گلبهاری; born 1989) is an Afghan actress who earned international fame for her role as the title character in the 2003 film Osama, playing a girl who had to dress and act as a boy to support her family during the Taliban years.

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Mina Walking

Mina Walking is a 2015 Canadian-Afghani Dari-language drama film written and directed by Yosef Baraki.

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf (محسن مخملباف, Mohsen Makhmalbaaf; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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No Woman

No Woman (Persian: زن ممنوع) is a 2015 experimental, arthouse short film from Afghanistan by Yama Rauff, who was also selected for the "Fresh Legs 2016" exhibition at Galleri Heike Arndt DK in Germany and Denmark.

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Non-governmental organization

A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.

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Opium War (2008 film)

Opium War (جنگ تریاک) is a 2008 Afghan black comedy film written and directed by Golden Globe winner Siddiq Barmak.

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Osama (film)

Osama (Osamah) is a 2003 drama film made in Afghanistan by Siddiq Barmak.

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Paghman

Paghman (Dari/Pashto:پغمان) is a town in the hills near Afghanistan's capital of Kabul.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Pashto cinema

Pashto cinema (د پښتو سينما; پالېوډ), refers to the Pashto-language film industry of Pakistani cinema based in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Phil Grabsky

Phil Grabsky is a British documentary film-maker.

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Projector

A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen.

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Rambo III

Rambo III is a 1988 American action film directed by Peter MacDonald and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, who also reprises his role as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo.

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Reading Cinemas

Reading Cinemas is a group of cinema chains operating in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Roya Sadat

Roya Sadat (Dari: رؤیا سادات; born 1983) is an Afghan film producer and director.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Saba Sahar

Saba Sahar (born 28 August 1975) is an Afghan actress, and the country's first female film director and film producer.

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Saeed Orokzai

Saeed Orokzai is an Afghan filmmaker best known for the 1979 film Mardara Qawl Ast (مرد ها ره قول اس, meaning "Men Keep Their Promise").

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Sahraa Karimi

Sahraa Karimi (20 April 1981) is an Afghan film director who was the first female chairperson of the Afghan Film Organization (Afghan Film).

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Salim Shaheen

Salim Shaheen is an Afghan actor, producer and filmmaker.

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Samira Makhmalbaf

Samira Makhmalbaf (سمیرا مخملباف, Samira Makhmalbaaf;, born 15 February 1980) is an Iranian filmmaker and screenwriter.

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Saur Revolution

The Saur Revolution or Sowr Revolution (د ثور انقلاب; إنقلاب ثور), also known as the April Revolution or the April Coup, was staged on 27–28 April 1978 (rtl) by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and overthrew Afghan president Mohammad Daoud Khan, who had himself taken power in the 1973 Afghan coup d'état and established an autocratic one-party system in the country.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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Shamila Shirzad

Shamila Shirzad (شمیلا شیرزاد; born 2006) is an Afghan Iranian actress.

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Siddiq Barmak

Siddiq Barmak (صدیق برمک, born September 7, 1962) is an Afghan film director and producer.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Tajikistan

Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia.

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Taliban

The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.

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The Beast (1988 film)

The Beast (also known as The Beast of War) is a 1988 American war film directed by Kevin Reynolds and written by William Mastrosimone, based on his play Nənawā́te.

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The Black Tulip (2010 film)

The Black Tulip is a 2010 film directed by novice Afghan-born American filmmaker Sonia Nassery Cole and starring Haji Gul Aser, Sonia Nassery Cole, Walid Amini, Jack Scalia, and Edoardo Costa.

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The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan

The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan is a 2004 documentary film, directed by British film maker Phil Grabsky and released on 6 March 2004 in USA.

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The Kite Runner (film)

The Kite Runner is a 2007 American drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Benioff and based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini.

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The Patience Stone (film)

The Patience Stone (سنگ صبور) is a 2012 French-Afghan war drama film directed by Atiq Rahimi, based on his 2008 novel of the same title.

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TOLOnews

Tolo News (Dari and Pashto: طلوع‌نیوز), stylized TOLOnews, is an Afghan news channel and website broadcasting from Kabul.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)

Wajma (An Afghan Love Story) is a 2013 Afghan drama film written and directed by Barmak Akram.

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Yassamin Maleknasr

Yassamin Maleknasr (also spelled Yasman Malek-Nasr, born 19 May 1955, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian filmmaker and actress.

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Youssof Kohzad

Youssof Kohzad (Persian: يوسف كهزاد; also spelled Youssef Kohzad; 1935–2019) was an Afghan writer, painter, playwright, artist, poet, actor, and art consultant.

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Zolykha's Secret

Zolykha's Secret or Rahze Zolykha is a 2006 Afghan film directed by Horace Shansab.

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16 Days in Afghanistan

16 Days in Afghanistan is a 2007 documentary film about the journey of Afghan-American Anwar Hajher, also the director, traveling to his homeland Afghanistan after 25 years to rediscover his country.

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1973 Afghan coup d'état

The 1973 Afghan coup d'état, also called by Afghans as the Coup of 26 Saratan (کودتای ۲۶ سرطان) and self-proclaimed as the Revolution of 26 Saratan 1352, was led by Army General and prince Mohammad Daoud Khan against his cousin, King Mohammad Zahir Shah, on 17 July 1973, which resulted in the establishment of the Republic of Afghanistan under a one-party system led by Daoud Khan.

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80th Academy Awards

The 80th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2007.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Afghanistan

Also known as History of cinema in Afghanistan.

, List of Afghan films, List of Afghan submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, List of cinema of the world, Mamnoon Maqsoodi, Marina Golbahari, Mina Walking, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Netherlands, No Woman, Non-governmental organization, Opium War (2008 film), Osama (film), Paghman, Pakistan, Pashto cinema, Persian language, Phil Grabsky, Projector, Rambo III, Reading Cinemas, Rotten Tomatoes, Roya Sadat, Russia, Saba Sahar, Saeed Orokzai, Sahraa Karimi, Salim Shaheen, Samira Makhmalbaf, Saur Revolution, September 11 attacks, Shamila Shirzad, Siddiq Barmak, Soviet Union, Tajikistan, Taliban, The Beast (1988 film), The Black Tulip (2010 film), The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, The Kite Runner (film), The Patience Stone (film), TOLOnews, United Kingdom, United States, Wajma (An Afghan Love Story), Yassamin Maleknasr, Youssof Kohzad, Zolykha's Secret, 16 Days in Afghanistan, 1973 Afghan coup d'état, 80th Academy Awards.

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