Query: Documentaries about Afghanistan, but are not about historical events
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
16 Days in Afghanistan
No Burqas Behind Bars
Three Songs for Benazir
Saving Mes Aynak
Afghan Muscles
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
Bitter Lake (film)
Enemies of Happiness
Escape from Taliban
Frame by Frame (film)
Afghan Star (film)
Love Crimes of Kabul
The Forbidden Reel
Midnight Traveler
The Boxing Girls of Kabul
The Noon Gun
Evidence from documents: 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.
No Burqas Behind Bars: a 2012 Swedish feature-length documentary film made by Maryam Ebrahimi and Nima Sarvestani on life in a women's prison in Afghanistan.
Three Songs for Benazir: Award nominated 2021 Afghan-American documentary short film by Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei.
Saving Mes Aynak: A view of Mes Aynak
'''''Saving Mes Aynak''''' is a 2014 independent documentary film, directed, produced, shot and edited by Brent E. Huffman. It was produced out of Kartemquin Films, the landmark Chicago-based documentary house, along with producer Zak Piper.


It focuses on Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori and his struggle to save Mes Aynak, a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan which faces demolition. ''Saving Mes Aynak'' was the 2014 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Grant in 2014.
Afghan Muscles: '''''Afghan Muscles''''' is a 2006 Danish documentary film directed by Andreas Møl Dalsgaard about bodybuilding in Afghanistan.
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan: '''''The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan''''' is a 2010 documentary film produced by Clover Films and directed by Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi about the practice of ''bacha bazi'' in Afghanistan.
Bitter Lake (film): '''''Bitter Lake''''' is a 2015 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that Western politicians have manufactured a simplified story about militant Islam, turning it into a good vs. evil argument informed by, and a reaction to, Western society's increasing chaos and disorder, which they neither grasp nor understand. The film makes extended use of newsreels and archive footage, and intersperses brief narrative segments with longer segments that depict violence and war in Afghanistan.
Enemies of Happiness: '''''Enemies of Happiness''''' is a 2006 documentary about the controversial Afghan politician and member of the Afghan Parliament Malalai Joya filmed by Danish director Eva Mulvad.
Escape from Taliban: The film is based on the story ''A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife'' by Sushmita Banerjee, who fled Afghanistan in 1995 after six years of living there with her Afghan husband
Frame by Frame (film): '''''Frame by Frame''''' is a 2015 documentary film that follows four Afghan photojournalists
Afghan Star (film): Afghan Star''''' is a 2009 British documentary film following four contestants in the Afghan music competition, ''Afghan Star''. ''Afghan Star'' was directed by Havana Marking and is distributed by Zeitgeist Films. The film was acclaimed by critics.
Director and co-producer Havana Marking received funding from the Channel 4 BritDoc Foundation (now known as Doc Society) on the basis of her idea for the film. After spending a month gathering footage for a taster tape and planning the project, the documentary was commissioned by British channel More4.
Love Crimes of Kabul: 2011 documentary film following select cases of inmates at Badam Bagh women's prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, where half are jailed for "moral crimes" such as adultery, premarital sex and running away from home.
The Forbidden Reel: '''''The Forbidden Reel''''' is a 2019 Canadian documentary film, directed by Ariel Nasr. The film profiles the cinema of Afghanistan through a history of the Afghan Film Organization.


The film premiered in 2019 at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. It had its Canadian premiere at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it was named one of five winners of the festival's Rogers Audience Award, alongside the films ''The Walrus and the Whistleblower'', ''9/11 Kids'', ''First We Eat'' and ''There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace''.


The film received two Prix Iris nominations at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021, for Best Documentary and Best Editing in a Documentary (Annie Jean).
Midnight Traveler: '''''Midnight Traveler''''' is a 2019 documentary film directed by Hassan Fazili. Filmed on three smartphones by Fazili and his wife, Fatima Hussaini, and their two daughters, it chronicles their three-year journey from their home in Afghanistan to Europe in search for asylum.
The Boxing Girls of Kabul: '''''The Boxing Girls of Kabul''''' is a 2012 Canadian documentary film directed by Ariel Nasr. The film follows young women boxers and their coach Sabir Sharifi at Afghanistan’s female boxing academy, as these athletes face harassment and threats in their efforts to represent their country in international competition and attempt to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games.
The Noon Gun: '''''The Noon Gun''''' is a 2004 documentary film directed by Anthony Stern. In 1971, the experimental film maker Anthony Stern travelled to Afghanistan with his 16 mm film camera.