Javid Sina, an Afghan refugee based in Sweden, has had a life punctuated by borders. First in Iran, where he spent his childhood, and where as an Afghan he was abused, unable to go to school, and forced to educate himself through the books his family kept at home, from Dostoyevsky to Rumi. Then migrating to Sweden, which he did by foot when he was 15 years old, around ten years ago, after being passed around by a series of exploitative smugglers.
And even today, now that he just finished film school in Göteburg, he saw his ambitions restricted by borders again as he tried to make it to Haugesund for the Norwegian Intl. Film Festival-Haugesund. This time though, his path wasn’t blocked due to his foreign nationality, but because of Covid-19 restrictions. Norway currently welcomes visitors from across Europe who are fully vaccinated and have received their second dose more than 7 days before traveling,...
And even today, now that he just finished film school in Göteburg, he saw his ambitions restricted by borders again as he tried to make it to Haugesund for the Norwegian Intl. Film Festival-Haugesund. This time though, his path wasn’t blocked due to his foreign nationality, but because of Covid-19 restrictions. Norway currently welcomes visitors from across Europe who are fully vaccinated and have received their second dose more than 7 days before traveling,...
- 8/27/2021
- by Alexander Durie
- Variety Film + TV
Nancy Kwan, Lena Khan, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Tiffany Chu were honored with awards during the Asian World Film Festival, which took place Nov. 6-14.
In its fifth year, the Awff teamed up with the Snow Leopard Trust again to raise awareness for the endangered snow leopard and its ecosystem in the high mountains of Asia.
“The World of Suzie Wong” actor Kwan received the Awff Lifetime Achievement Award; Sanada, the Snow Leopard Outstanding Cinematic Achievement Award; Chu, the 2019 Snow Leopard Rising Star Award; and Khan took home the Awff American Red Cross/ Tiffany Circle Courage to Dream Award.
Additionally, Suium Sulaimanova accepted the inaugural Hollywood Foreign Press Association Snow Leopard Short Film award for her film “My Friend – My Enemy.”
Other winners of the festival were announced in a closing ceremony hosted by actor and co-founder of Asians in La Nancy Yoon. View the complete list of winners from the...
In its fifth year, the Awff teamed up with the Snow Leopard Trust again to raise awareness for the endangered snow leopard and its ecosystem in the high mountains of Asia.
“The World of Suzie Wong” actor Kwan received the Awff Lifetime Achievement Award; Sanada, the Snow Leopard Outstanding Cinematic Achievement Award; Chu, the 2019 Snow Leopard Rising Star Award; and Khan took home the Awff American Red Cross/ Tiffany Circle Courage to Dream Award.
Additionally, Suium Sulaimanova accepted the inaugural Hollywood Foreign Press Association Snow Leopard Short Film award for her film “My Friend – My Enemy.”
Other winners of the festival were announced in a closing ceremony hosted by actor and co-founder of Asians in La Nancy Yoon. View the complete list of winners from the...
- 11/15/2019
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
As the daughter of refugees who fled Afghanistan for a new life in Iran, Sahraa Karimi never lost touch with her parents’ homeland, whose culture and traditions were kept alive in her Tehran household. But as the years passed, and her pursuit of a career in filmmaking took her to Europe, the distance between Karimi and Afghanistan grew. Suddenly, the director was faced with a difficult choice.
“Somehow, from a storytelling perspective, I don’t belong to this part of the world,” she said, recalling her studies in Slovakia. “I belong to Afghanistan.”
Karimi returned to Kabul to shoot “Hava, Maryam, Ayesha,” her fiction feature debut that has its world premiere in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival. The film is produced by Katayoon Shahabi (Noori Pictures), who has helped introduce Iranian filmmakers such as Asghar Farhadi and Mohammad Rasoulof to the world.
Inspired by a longing to deepen her understanding of Afghanistan,...
“Somehow, from a storytelling perspective, I don’t belong to this part of the world,” she said, recalling her studies in Slovakia. “I belong to Afghanistan.”
Karimi returned to Kabul to shoot “Hava, Maryam, Ayesha,” her fiction feature debut that has its world premiere in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival. The film is produced by Katayoon Shahabi (Noori Pictures), who has helped introduce Iranian filmmakers such as Asghar Farhadi and Mohammad Rasoulof to the world.
Inspired by a longing to deepen her understanding of Afghanistan,...
- 8/30/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
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