WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED
Fri, Aug 06
|Virtual Theater
The incredible and mostly true story of five unfinished feature films from the Communist era in Afghanistan (1978-1991) – when films were weapons, filmmakers became targets, and the dreams of constantly shifting political regimes merged with the stories told onscreen.
Time & Location
Aug 06, 2021, 11:59 PM – Sep 04, 2021, 12:00 AM
Virtual Theater
About the event
WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED (Afghanistan, Qatar, USA •2019). Virtual Tickets are $10 for 7 days of viewing.
Trailer & Film: https://watch.eventive.org/whatweleftunfinished/play/60feed7672463d00706fc158
Utterly unique in film history, Mariam Ghani's archival marvel WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED is a probing and engrossing case study in censorship, authoritarianism, and political art. Thirty years after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the subsequent civil war, during a new era of political uncertainty for the embattled nation, WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED looks closely at the era of state-funded Afghan filmmaking during the country’s Communist era, bringing together dozens of writers, actors, and filmmakers to discuss five unfinished, unedited projects produced between 1978 and 1991. All five films – THE APRIL REVOLUTION (1978), DOWNFALL (1987), THE BLACK DIAMOND (1989), WRONG WAY (1990), and AGENT (1991) – completed principal photography before being canceled by the state or abandoned by the filmmakers. Never edited, they escaped the final censors’…