'Imagine a country without artists.' At the Venice Film Festival, Afghan female filmmakers who fled the Taliban begged the world to not forget the Afghan people and to support its artists, warning that a country without culture will lose its identity.
The Venice Film Festival organized a panel discussion Saturday to give a platform to Sahraa Karimi, the first female president of the Afghan Film Organization, and documentary filmmaker Sahra Mani, who is presenting a project at the Venice film market fair.
She cited numerous films that were in pre-and-post production, filmmaking workshops that had been organized, insurance policies negotiated for equipment, and said that Afghan directors were increasingly being welcomed at international film festivals. Karimi herself had presented a film at the Venice Film Festival in 2019.“It was our dream to change the narrative of Afghanistan, because we were tired of those cliches about Afghanistan,” she said.
“Imagine a country without artists, a country without filmmakers, how can they defend its identity?” Karimi asked. “Maybe we are not politically ambassadors, but we are ambassadors for our stories, we are ambassadors of our identity. She said she decided to flee on the morning of Aug. 15, with just a few hours to make “the most difficult decision of your life: stay or leave.”
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