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movie recs?

I was going to post a different list, but right now it is only films about Afghanistan and by Afghan filmmakers that matter.

by Afghan (& Iranian) filmmakers:

An Apple from Paradise (2010), dir. Homayun Morowat

Black Kite (2017), dir. Tarique Qayumi

The Black Tulip (2010), dir. Sonia Nassery Cole

Chand metre moka'ab eshgh/A Few Cubic Meters of Love (2014), dir. Jamshid Mahmoudi

Hava, Maryam, Ayesha (2019), dir. Sahraa Karimi

Kabuli Kid (2008), dir. Barmak Akram

Khakestar-o-khak/Earth and Ashes (2004), dir. Atiq Rahimi

Namai ba rahis gomhor/A Letter to the President (2017), dir. Roya Sadat

Opium War (2008), dir. Siddiq Barmak

Osama (2003), dir. Siddiq Barmak

Panj é asr/At Five in the Afternoon (2003), dir. Samira Makhmalbaf

Parwareshghah/The Orphanage (2019), dir. Shahrbanoo Sadat

Safar e Ghandehar/Kandahar (2001), dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Syngué sabour, pierre de patience/The Patience Stone (2012), dir. Atiq Rahimi

Utopia (2015), dir. Hassan Nazer

Wolf and Sheep (2016), dir. Shahrbanoo Sadat

Zolykha's Secret (2006), dir. Horace Shansab

by Western directors:

In This World (2002), dir. Michael Winterbottom

Jirga (2018), dir. Benjamin Gilmour

The Kite Runner (2007), dir. Marc Forster

Mina Walking (2015), dir. Yosef Baraki

Documentaries:

16 Days in Afghanistan (2007), dir. Anwar Hajher

Angels Are Made Of Light (2018), dir. James Longley

Frame by Frame (2015), dir. Alexandria Bombach & Mo Scarpelli

Kabul, City in the Wind (2018), dir. Aboozar Amini

Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) (2019), dir. Carol Dysinger

No Burqas Behind Bars (2012), dir. Maryam Ebrahimi & Nima Sarvestani

The Silhouettes (2020), dir. Afsaneh Salari

Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), dir. Alex Gibney*

A Thousand Girls Like Me (2018), dir. Sahra Mani

What Tomorrow Brings (2015), dir. Beth Murphy

- Sahraa Karimi's account of escaping from Kabul

- The women’s film collective Women Make Movies (WMM) based out of New York is streaming nine films that touch upon the lives of Afghan women from their catalogue for free during the month of August.

*This is the only film that I will include that discusses Western intervention in Afghanistan as it is a powerful critique of the topic; and I have consciously excluded most other documentaries that almost exclusively focus on the experiences of Western military soldiers which do not matter in the slightest.

Phos is my hero / heroine

Phos and the crew.

Couldn’t say it better

quelle jolie fille

tbh i think im gonna skip uni today and go to the museum and draw instead because honestly im really not in the mood for (life) the noisy and bright illustration studio

i’d much rather see the illuminated manuscripts and walk by the river than spend 8 hours at uni in an unworkable atmosphere only to come home overloaded and exhausted i just cba!! im tired

sister sweet

まとめ by :DDD

The truth is: the whole point of dying is to be scared. Because that means that your life meant something to you. You should fear dying. You should be terrified of it. Even though it's natural, even though it's going to happen, even though you should come to terms with it in a certain way, and go through the feeling of it , and have a relationship with it. You also should acknowledge the fact that when it's gonna happen, no matter how much you prepare, you're gonna be terrified. Because life does mean something.

Claire Wineland, YouTube video

Love your blog so freaking much!! It’s so relaxing 🌿☁️ what are your book recommendations? I’m always looking for new ones hehe

Thank you so much :) I hope you enjoy these books:

The Night Circus // Erin Morgenstern

The Bear and the Nightingale // Katherine Arden

The Secret History // Donna Tartt

City of Thieves // David Benioff

The Raven Boys // Maggie Stiefvater 

The Diviners // Libba Bray

Station Eleven // Emily St. John Mandell

Purple Hibiscus // Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Six of Crows || Crooked Kingdom // Leigh Bardugo

ironic response: klonopin and seroquel

sincere: the sun and the moon

name two things better than self isolation and the refusal to face reality

executive dysfunction

I am a difficult person for me to manage.

thank you cereal! thank you rice milk! thank you oreos! and diet coke

without you i would die of starvation

how to eat anything not comprised mostly of carbs and or sugar