Heart of Asia (Afghanistan)

A portrait of an unforgettable transgender schoolteacher in Herat, Afghanistan, who shines even with the prospect of the Taliban’s return.

Afri, a three-time World Surfing Games participant, has spent a lifetime searching for the world's best coastlines for surf, but never in his home...

Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a...

An insight into a girls' school in Afghanistan which imposes an even stricter interpretation of Islam than the Taliban.

According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art and creation; but there is another tale to be...

An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in...

Amir, shot during the height of the Afghan civil war in the 1980s, investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the...

Since 15 August 2021, the day the Taliban took power, women in Afghanistan have been suffering from a gender apartheid that is unique in the world....

The four Afghan refugees who have applied for asylum in Austria strike up the song, “The caravan moves on” again and again. Encouraged by...

In December 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Four years later—the Islamic calendar's year 1362—, director Volker Koepp visited...

By immersing themselves in a Taliban village, and after gaining very rare access to major institutions, the directors shed a disturbing light on...

Afghanistan, one of the most dangerous places on earth, is home to a population of endangered and elusive snow leopards.