Afghanistan - Best International Feature Film
Afghan submissions for the Oscars for Best International Feature Film
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- DirectorAshok NandaJawed WasselStarsBaktash ZaherMariam WeissYunis AziziA young Afghan-American on a journey of "self-discovery".
- DirectorSiddiq BarmakStarsMarina GolbahariZubaida SaharKhwaja NaderAfter the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
- DirectorAtiq RahimiStarsAbdul GhaniJawan Mard HomayounSher AgahElderly 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.
- DirectorSiddiq BarmakStarsPeter BussianJoe SubaFawad SamaniTwo American soldiers wounded in the Afghanistan desert stumble across a Russian tank which has a group of Afghanis living inside.
- DirectorAnwar Hajher16 Days in Afghanistan is a documentary that documents the state of Afghan people after the fall of the Taliban.
- DirectorSonia Nassery ColeStarsHaji Gul AserSonia Nassery ColeLeo SolomonThe Mansouri family opens up a new restaurant after the fall of the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan only to be subsequently targeted by factional Taliban elements.
- DirectorAtiq RahimiStarsGolshifteh FarahaniHamid DjavadanHassina BurganIn a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.
- DirectorBarmak AkramStarsWajma BaharMustafa AbdulsatarHaji Gul AserIt's snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begins 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.
- DirectorJamshid MahmoudiStarsNoor Agha AhmadiMahdi EbadiHasiba EbrahimiA romance blooms between a young Iranian man working in a factory in Tehran and the daughter of an Afghan worker.
- DirectorHassan NazerStarsMartine Malalai ZikriaAndrew ShaverHomayoun ErshadiJanan, a woman from Afghanistan, travels to the UK for artificial insemination. Cultural, religious, and moral complications explode when William, a medical sciences student working in the clinic, switches the donor's semen for his own.Disqualified
- DirectorNavid MahmoudiStarsReza AhmadiFereshteh HosseiniBehrang AlaviTwo young Afghans,Fereshteh and Nabi, are in love, but Fereshteh has to follow her parents and leave Afghanistan to find refuge in Iran. Nabi decides to illegally cross the border, find Fereshteh and take her through Turkey towards Europe and a better life.Not on the Final List
- DirectorRoya SadatStarsLeena AlamAziz DeldarMamnoun MaqsoudiSoraya, a low-level government official, is imprisoned when she defends a woman from village lords. Behind bars, she writes the Afghan President for help.
- DirectorJamshid MahmoudiStarsMohsen TanabandehMojtaba PirzadehFatemeh HosseiniAzim, an afghan refugee, who works at the municipality at night, lives in Tehran along with his family. Being the head of entire family and as the eldest brother, he arranges for his brother Faroogh, and his family along with their mother to be smuggled into Germany. But at the last moments Faroogh, shamefully makes his decision known to Azim that he's not going to take their mother who is very attached to her grandchildren. Azim who feels lonely and is furious, accidentally finds out that his mother is in dire need of a kidney transplant, otherwise she'll die in 2 months. During his search for a donor, he discovers that Iranians are not legally permitted to donate their organs to foreigners and he is the only donor although the doctor recommends him seriously not to do so. Now, he has to choose between his own life and his mother's whom he has always claimed as the most important one in his life.
- DirectorSahraa KarimiStarsArezoo AriapoorFereshta AfsharHasiba Ebrahimi3 Afghan women from different backgrounds in Kabul face challenges: neglected pregnant Hava; educated Maryam facing divorce while pregnant; and teenage Ayesha marrying her cousin after her boyfriend leaves her pregnant. All by themselves.Not on the final list