Age limit: N-13. 7-12 years old children must be accompanied by an adult.
Genre: Documentary
Year of release: 2024
Duration: 92 min.
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Subtitle language: Lithuanian
Director makes a deal with the devil and risks his life to follow in the footsteps of the Taliban as they take over an abandoned US military base. A rare glimpse into a radical world.
Taliban leaders allow Egyptian director Ibrahim Nash'at to film an inspection of the former US military base at Hollywoodgate. At first, the weapons (and documents and alcohol) left by the US seem strange to the Taliban soldiers. However, eventually they understand the technique and begin to use it for their own purposes. Suspected by the Taliban, the director cannot ask critical questions, but his camera captures the transformation as the power-hungry regime acquires tools of power it has never seen before.
Languages: Dari, English, Pashto
Subtitles: Lithuanian, English
Director: Ibrahim Nash'at
Cinematographer: Ibrahim Nash'at
Editing: Atanas Georgiev, Marion Tuor
Producers: Talal Derki, Odessa Rae, Shane Boris
Translator: Edvardas Vaišvila
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A filmmaker risks his life to follow in the footsteps of the Taliban as they take over an abandoned US military base. A rare glimpse into a radical world.
When the United States withdrew from its twenty-year 'forever war' in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with weaponry - a portion of the over $7 billion in US armaments still in the country. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash'at's Hollywoodgate spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind – and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.
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