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May 19, 2020 · 20 Years in Afghanistan. Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi tackle life in Afghanistan in an outstanding and emotionally involving documentary.
- Mansel Stimpson
Apr 28, 2022 · A remarkably personal story. MY CHILDHOOD, MY COUNTRY is a real-life epic of boyhood and manhood, co-filmed and co-directed over twenty years by British filmmaker Phil Grabsky and Afghan filmmaker Shoaib Sharifi.
BN1 talks to director Phil Grabsky about his BAFTA award-winning documentary, My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan, which takes an extraordinary look at life during wartime.
My Childhood, My Country shows the effects that the Taliban have had not only on the country as a whole, but on the morale of its population. Sep 13, 2021. An emotionally gripping film about...
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- Documentary
- Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi
- Filming in Afghanistan
- Finding A Story
- From Cave Dweller to Cameraman
- The Taliban's Return
Mir, as Hussein is referred to in the film, tells his story beginning in the early 2000s, shortly before the US invaded Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks. The Taliban government, under their 1996-2001 rule, had imposed a strict Sharia-based system that severely restricted the freedom of women, closed down schools and effectively took the count...
"I went to make a film, but I didn't know what the story would be," Grabsky said, adding that he wanted to shoot in Bamiyan and latched on to a UN convoy that was going there. He had heard from a journalist friend of people living in the caves in Bamiyan and thought he'd find an adult man who'd be ready to tell his story. "But the adult males were ...
In the film, Mir Hussein's life is set against the trajectory of Afghanistan's upward progress from a conservative, underdeveloped nation. Mir's family initially lived in a cave in the hill which once housed the Bamiyan Buddhas.Scenes in the film show young boys directing the filmmaker to rooms in the hillsides that still had sculptures carved on t...
"There will be war because the Taliban cannot be stopped," Mir says in a scene in "My Childhood, My Country" that was shot in 2021, some months before the militants took over the country's government. His wife adds: "One half of the people want the Taliban, the other half don't. The Taliban's return is worrying because it will oppress people." She ...
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- Manasi Gopalakrishnan
My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan. Award-winning filmmakers, Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi, present a real-life epic of boyhood and manhood, filmed across twenty years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe.
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Jun 4, 2021 · When we first meet Mir, he is a mischievous boy of seven living in a cave in central Afghanistan alongside the Buddhas of Bamiyan, two statues that were recently destroyed. For two decades, the film follows the adventures of his life, until, as an adult with a family of his own, he decides to pursue his own career as a news cameraman in Kabul.
