What We Left Unfinished

Name: What We Left Unfinished
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 3, 2021
Duration: 71 min
Cast: Adela Adim, Asadollah Aram, Ferida, Latif Ahmadi, Nemat Arash

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Dekanalog | Release Date: August 3, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Adela Adim, Asadollah Aram, Ferida, Latif Ahmadi, Nemat Arash, Noor Hashim Abir, Qader Farokh, Said Miran Farhad, Shirindad Dakkoi, Zarghuna Aram

Summary: What We Left Unfinished tells the story of five unfinished fiction feature films from the Communist era in Afghanistan (1978-1991), and the people who went to crazy lengths to make them, in a time when films were weapons, filmmakers became targets, and the dreams of constantly shifting political regimes merged with the stories toldWhat We Left Unfinished tells the story of five unfinished fiction feature films from the Communist era in Afghanistan (1978-1991), and the people who went to crazy lengths to make them, in a time when films were weapons, filmmakers became targets, and the dreams of constantly shifting political regimes merged with the stories told onscreen. This tight-knit group of Afghan filmmakers loved cinema enough to risk their lives for art. Despite government interference, censorship boards, scarce resources, armed opposition, and near-constant threats of arrest or even death, they made films that were subversive and, in the filmmakers' opinions, always "true" to life. All five films completed principal photography before being canceled by the state or abandoned by the filmmakers. What We Left Unfinished brings together newly rediscovered and restored footage from these unfinished films with new footage shot in the same locations, and stories from behind the scenes, as told by the directors, actors and crew who worked on the films. Archival fictions, present-day recollections, and both imagined and real visions of Afghanistan slip and slide into each other in a film that reminds us that nations are inventions, and films can reinvent them.… Expand

Director: Mariam Ghani

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 71 min

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Devika Girish

Aug 5, 2021

Ghani’s mode is less interrogative than associative. Her montage of film fragments illustrates and sometimes poetically belies the interviewees’ recollections, evoking the ambiguous and unresolved contours of collective memory. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Clocking in at barely over an hour, What We Left Unfinished feels a bit unfinished itself, and its compelling premise will leave history buffs, media scholars and those simply looking for a good yarn about lost art wanting far more. Read full review

William Repass

Mariam Ghani’s documentary spurs audiences to consider the politics that underlies any artistic activity. Read full review

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