BIPOC filmmaker. Agency:.A Loaded Pictures and National Film Board of Canada Production.

Writer, Ariel Nasr ; director, Ariel Nasr ; editor, Annie Jean ; cinematographer, Duraid Munajim ; music composer, Olivier Alary ; sound designer, Marie-Pierre Grenier ; producer, Sergeo Kirby, Kat Baulu ; executive producer, Sergeo Kirby, Annette Clarke, Jane Jankovic ; production executive, Linda Fong ; co-producer, Ariel Nasr ; associate producer, Stacey Tenenbaum ; sound, Sergeo Kirby, Emory Murchison, Karl Niaudot ; research, Ariel Nasr ; digital imaging specialist, Mélanie Bouchard, Jacques Bertrand Simard ; foley artist, Karla Baumgardner ; re-recording, Jean-Paul Vialard ; executive producer, Fiona Lawson Baker.

Featuring, Latif Ahmadi, null Habib, Mariam Ghani, Ibrahim Arify, Isaaq Nezami, null Mahmood, Siddiq Barmak, Yasmin Yarmal, Yusuf Jannesar ; cast, null Abdurahman, Ahmed Zahed, null Najebullah, Abdul Rasool Khalaqi, Hamsafar Azam, Khaled Aziz, Mohamad Yaqood, Farooq Ghulam Baraki, Jamil Dakohai, Safiulla Sadiqi, Zakarya Amin, Koko Gul.

Recorded 2019.

Driven to create amidst war and chaos, Afghan filmmakers gave birth to an extraordinary national cinema. Driven to destroy, Taliban extremists set out to torch that legacy. Marvelling in the beauty and fragile power of movies, Afghan-Canadian director Ariel Nasr crafts a thrilling and utterly original story of modern Afghanistan.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Rogers Audience Award (ex aequo with The Walrus and the Whistleblower, 9/11 Kids, First We Eat and There's No Place Like This, Anyplace), 2020 Special Mention, 2020

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).