According to THR news, the Afghan female director Sahraa Karimi confirmed that she will shoot a feature film called "Take off from Kabul" (provisional translation), based on her real experience of escaping the Taliban to Europe. The film started when the Taliban entered the Afghan capital Kabul on August 15. Karimi and his family managed to escape within 40 hours, via Istanbul , and finally arrived in Kiev, Ukraine.
Director Karimi said: "I want to show the world that this was a very normal day, everything was normal, but suddenly everything fell apart. In the news, people only saw those Big event, but during those 40 hours, there were many ordinary people’s stories that I saw and experienced.”
Director Karimi is the first female chairman of the Afghan film company in the history of At this Venice Film Festival, she called on the international film industry to continue to pay attention to the dangers and plights of artists under the Taliban regime. At the end of last month, the Taliban shot and killed a musician in Baghlan Province . Karimi said: "We weren't a hundred years ago. If someone was killed for playing an instrument, it would be shameful for us living in any corner of the world."
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