HOLLYWOODGATE

By Ibrahim NASHAT

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Documentary - Completed 2023


Festivals
& Awards

Zurich FF 2023
Focus Competition
Venice - Biennale 2023
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • GERMANY, USA
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ibrahim NASHAT
    • Synopsis
    • When the United States withdrew from its twenty-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, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s HOLLYWOODGATE 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.