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10 films about Afghanistan
Osama (2003)
The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Women were banned from working in most areas. This threatened the existence of families whose men were killed or injured in the conflict. Siddiq Barmak’s film follows a teenage girl posing as a boy to help her family. Cinematography was banned under the Taliban, the first film since 1996 to be entirely filmed in Afghanistan.
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