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 ...

No Good Men, the latest feature from Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat, will open the 2026 Berlin Film Festival. The film follows Naru, the only camerawoman at Kabul TV, who is convinced that there ...

This article was written by Elina Qalam for Hasht-e Subh Daily and published on October 29, 2025. An edited version of the article is published on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement.

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 ...

Elham Ehsas’ film, debuting at Locarno before traveling to TIFF, shows how an Afghan cosmonaut went into space and explores how conflict narratives and echoes of colonialism overshadow the historic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...