Director: Ibrahim Nash'at Producers: Talal Derki, Odessa Rae, Shane Boris
Description:
When the US withdrew from its 20 year “forever war” in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with weaponry – a portion of the over $7 billion in U.S. armaments still in the country. Unprecedented and audacious, the filmmaker Ibrahim Nash'at spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.
Biography:
Ibrahim Nash'at is a multi-award-winning Egyptian documentary filmmaker based in Berlin. His career in journalism spans various formats, working with Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, Business Insider, AJ+, Voice of America and others. He co-edited Talal Derki's latest film Under the Sky of Damascus which premiered at Berlinale. He has directed multiple short films which were selected in multiple film festivals around the world.
Talal Derki is a director, producer and screenwriter. Talal Derki studied film directing in Athens at Stavrako High Institute of Cinematographic Art and Television. He worked as a freelance cameraman for CNN and Thomson Reuters. His feature documentary Return to Homs has won the Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Grand Jury Prize. He was a member of the international Jury at IDFA.
Odessa Rae is an Academy Award and BAFTA winning producer who was key in the formation of Ivanhoe Pictures, which produced the box office hit, Crazy Rich Asians. Odessa has become widely known for producing the highly-acclaimed documentary, Navalny. Odessa's films have been shown at festivals around the world and have received multiple honors including PGA, Dupont, Greirson, Cinema Eye and Critics' Choice awards. Odessa is the recipient of the UN Sustainable Goals Impact Through Film award.
Shane Boris is an Academy Award-winning, BAFTA-winning, and Emmy-nominated producer and writer. His films have played at festivals such as Sundance, Locarno, and New Directors/New Films and in museums like The Louvre, MoMA, and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures; and have received multiple honors including PGA, DGA, ACE, IDA, Peabody, Dupont, Greirson, Cinema Eye, Critics' Choice, and Platino Awards. Some of the previous films include: the Academy Award-winning Navalny, the Academy Award-nominated Fire of Love, the Emmy Award-nominated The Last Cruise, the Academy Award-nominated The Edge of Democracy, and the Sundance Award-winning All These Sleepless Nights.Shane is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
