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Return to Afghanistan is a vivid, touching portrait of a voyage of rediscovery that transports and transforms the viewer into a participant. As Vida and her brother move from the U.S. to Afghanistan and back again, they cross through the mirror of dimensionality and become simultaneous variants of themselves - both Afghan and American at the same time. By doing this, they lift the veil between "us and them" and make the viewer empathize with both. We get to look at the Afghans as Vida and Baki see them, and to look at Vida and Baki as the Afghans see them. It is a marvelous sympathetic achievement. The final segment of the film translates the changed world of post-9/11 as it alters and forms their new reality. What started out to be a documentary about going back to Afghanistan winds up being a beautifully evocative essay on the transitory nature of reality itself. This is a rare and moving work.
--Robert Finn, Former Ambassador to Afghanistan | |
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| Although not yet released, Return to Afghanistan is having a limited number of invitation only screenings. To attend a screening please send a request to the Inquiries link at the bottom of the page. | |
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Dag Hammarskjold Theatre at the U.N.
October 16 at 1:00 P.M. This screening is part of an ongoing United Nations Film Festival program initiated by its Department of Information and the Ford Foundation. It is designed to use film to raise world awareness among young people and over 100 inner city school teenagers also will attend. The audience will be invited to ask "no holds barred" questions of the Afghan ligation and the movie's principals. | |
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Princeton University
October 2nd at 1:00 P.M. | |