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KABUL MELODY

By Sahra MANI

LES CINEMAS DU MONDE - LA FABRIQUE CINEMA DE L’INSTITUT FRANÇAIS - as PROMO

Second film - Development 2021

Teenage girls Madina and Negin are studying music at the only music school in Kabul. They navigate their way between family criticism and Taliban threats. As a new European tour is coming up, both girls suddenly vanish. One day I receive a phone call. Madina wants to share her story.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Second film, Documentary, Drama
- Countries
- AFGHANISTAN
- Languages
- FARSI
- Director(s)
- Sahra MANI
- Producer(s)
- Sahra MANI (Afghanistan Doc House)
- Synopsis
- In the past four decades, Kabul has never been free of violence. Yet, sounds of poetry and melodies escape from a music school in the war-ridden city. Behind barbed wire, we meet Madina, the oboe-player, and Negin, Afghanis- tan’s first female orchestra conductor. As girls are forbidden from playing music in public in Afghanistan, they are braving threats – whether they come from the Taliban or from their own families – to bestow their melodies on the city. After five years of a journey between music, harmony and violence, in July 2019, the two girls were reported missing during a European tour. This event made us rethink the whole story.