MY AFGHANISTAN - LIFE IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE 

Over a period of three years, Afghan civilians have filmed their lives behind the frontier in the war-torn province of Helmand. They invite us into their homes, their hopes, and their heartbreaks, and their stories form a rich tapestry of an Afghanistan that never makes it to the news. Nagieb Khaja, a Danish director of Afghan origin, is the one who provided them with cameras, frustrated by the fact that the international media seldom report from these rural areas where most Afghans live.

 

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Release: 2013 (Denmark)

Duration: 88 minutes

Genre: Documentary feature

Spoken language: Danish, Dari, English and Pashto

 

Director: Nagieb Khaja

Screenplay: Nagieb Khaja

Cinematography: Henrik Bohn Ipsen, Abdul Mohammed, Haji Sahib and Juma Gul

Editor: Anders Villadsen
Sound Design: Niels Arild

Composer: Stein Berge Svendsen

Producers: Lise Lense-Møller and Henrik Grunnet

Production Country: Denmark and Afghanistan

Production Companies: Magic Hour Films and Grunnet Film

Coproducer: Piraya Film

Produced with support from: The Danish Film Institute, Nordic Film & TV Fond, Fritt Ord, Norsk FilmInstitutt, Nordvision, DR, SVT, NRK, YLE TV1, ERT-1 and HRT.

 

The film was nominated for Brussels One World International Human Rights Festival 2013 Best Documentary Award and received a Special Mention at the 2013 Buenos Aires Festival de Cine Independiente.