Having already won more than 20 awards from festivals all over the world, including ones in Sundance, Berlin and Thessaloniki, “Midnight Traveler” has emerged as one of the best documentaries of the year, as it continues its festival run.
Midnight Traveler screened at the Herat International Women’s Film Festival
The documentary begins in 2015, in Tajikistan, where Hassan Fazili, an Afghan filmmaker, his wife and also filmmaker Fatima Hussaini, and their two daughter, Nargis and Zahra, are about to leave the country after a 14 months stay that was instigated by the Taliban targeting them in Kabul. Just before they leave, they made an agreement with Emelie Mahdavian, a California-based documentarian they met in Tajikistan and the editor of the film, to shoot their trip in their mobile phones and send her the footage in order to come up with a documentary. The result, four years later, was “Midnight Traveler”.
What makes...
Midnight Traveler screened at the Herat International Women’s Film Festival
The documentary begins in 2015, in Tajikistan, where Hassan Fazili, an Afghan filmmaker, his wife and also filmmaker Fatima Hussaini, and their two daughter, Nargis and Zahra, are about to leave the country after a 14 months stay that was instigated by the Taliban targeting them in Kabul. Just before they leave, they made an agreement with Emelie Mahdavian, a California-based documentarian they met in Tajikistan and the editor of the film, to shoot their trip in their mobile phones and send her the footage in order to come up with a documentary. The result, four years later, was “Midnight Traveler”.
What makes...
- 11/24/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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