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Experimental/Arthouse short film: 2017: Black Kite: Leena Alam, Haji Gul Aser| A Letter to the President: Leena Alam, Mamnoon Maqsoodi| Faceless: Ali Akbar Kamal: Humayoon Shams Khan, Rahmatullah Khostai, Farahnaz Nawab: Action: First Afghan superhero film: 2019: Jirga: Benjamin Gilmour: Amir Shah Talash, Sam Smith, Sher Alam Miskeen Ustad ...
Black Mass is a 2015 American biographical crime drama film about American mobster Whitey Bulger. Directed by Scott Cooper and written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth , it is based on Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill 's 2000 book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob .
Robert Bales (born June 30, 1973) is an American mass murderer and former Army sniper who murdered 16 Afghan civilians in a mass shooting in Panjwayi District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, on March 11, 2012 – an event known as the Kandahar massacre.
Afghanistan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film [nb 1] since 2002, following the fall of the country's previous Taliban government. . The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.
Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death (earlier title: Massacre at Mazar) [1] is a 2002 documentary by Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran and Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi.It documents alleged war crimes committed by National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, a faction of the Northern Alliance under the command of General Abdul Rashid Dostum, against captured Taliban fighters.
She was soon cast, at the age of 36, as Mark Wahlberg's character's sister in the David O. Russell film The Fighter (2010). [1] McDermott later appeared in two more Russell films, American Hustle (2013) and Joy (2015). [3] In 2015, McDermott played Benedict Cumberbatch's wife in the critically acclaimed crime drama film Black Mass . [3]
On 8 November 2013, [2] [3] [4] Marines B and C were acquitted, [2] [5] but Blackman (Marine A) was initially found guilty of murder of the Afghan insurgent, [2] in contravention of section 42 of the Armed Forces Act 2006. [4] This made him the first British soldier to be convicted of a battlefield murder whilst serving abroad since the Second ...
An eight-day film festival was launched on August 3, 2019, showcasing 100 films around different cinemas in the country in celebration of the country's 100th anniversary of independence. In 2019, the documentary The Forbidden Reel , [ 8 ] which details the history of Afghan cinema through interviews and archives, was released.