Taliban doc to compete at US film festival

Iranian documentary ‘Alone Among the Taliban’ will compete at a film festival in the US state of Texas.

The Thin Line Festival, a five-day film, music, and photography event in the Texan city of Denton on April 19-23, will screen Iranian director Mohsen Eslamzadeh’s Taliban movie.

The 65-minute documentary details the director’s 15-day stay among the Taliban in Afghanistan.

‘Alone among the Taliban’ is a joint production of Iran and Afghanistan, showing the filmmaker’s visits to people’s homes to the jails and courts, while conducting interviews with local authorities and documenting the way they think and govern their states.

The documentary has already garnered rave reviews including awards such as the best documentary award at the 44th Athens International Film and Video Festival (AIFVF) earlier this month in Ohio, US.

In its domestic screening, the film was first screened in the ninth edition of Iran’s International Documentary Film Festival ‘Cinema Verite’ in December 2015, winning the International Shahid Avini Award for the Best Mid-Length Documentary.

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