STORY: "If you talk about the cinema of Afghanistan during the past 20 years, before the fall of Kabul, you cannot deny our names. We are part of the history, like, we women filmmakers." Three years ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The Afghan president canceled his official visit to Norway amid concerns following Mideast riots over a film that ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, officials said Thursday.

KABUL, Afghanistan — A 12-year-old Afghan boy starring in the upcoming film “The Kite Runner” fears he and his family could be ostracized or even attacked because of a rape scene that he says he ...

S1: Welcome in San Diego , it's Jade Hindman , one of the films in this year's GI Film Festival highlights the importance of interpreters during the war in Afghanistan. We'll talk with the filmmakers.

Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Now the 14-year-old Afghan boy with bright green eyes is getting ready for a ...

How do you make a documentary when you can't film in person — and even hiring a cameraperson is risky? That was the challenge for the award-winning Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who left the country ...

A renowned Kabul cinema that for decades attracted the city's film fans is being demolished to make way for a shopping mall, AFP journalists saw Thursday.

The State Department gave the celebrity treatment Thursday to the 14-year-old stars of “Buzkashi Boys,” an Oscar-nominated short film made in Kabul. The screening filled up quickly with State ...

KABUL, Jan. 15 -- Afghanistan has banned the import and exhibition of "The Kite Runner," a film about the troubled friendship of two Afghan boys, on the grounds that it could incite violence. The U.S.