Synopsis
At one of the many checkpoints in the city, policemen take turns, exposed to all dangers, far from their families, sheltered in containers where they share their meagre meals, and try to steal a few hours sleep.
Rewards, festivals and diffusions
MAMI Film Festival
Festival of Southern Documentaries
Visions du Réel, Nyon
Festival Indo Persan
European Cinema Festival
Festival des 3 Continents
Autumn Human Rights Film Festival
Hamed Alizadeh
Afghan Director and producer
Born in 1981, Hamed Alizadeh studied film and theatre at the Kabul University of Art. Since 2002, he has been a trainer and manager of the Asman Theatre Group, directing Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", Bertolt Brecht's "Man for Man" and Islavomir Morzhwik's "On the Sea". He then worked as an editor and photojournalist for the JAMEAH Weekly in Kabul, then as a director and producer of a children's programme on Rah-e Farda TV before becoming director of the children's department on the same channel. Between 2009 and 2011, he took part in documentary filmmaking training courses at the ateliers Varan. Before 2009, he worked on several short fiction and documentary films as a scriptwriter, director and editor. His film Check Point was selected for prestigious festivals such as Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland. He is now a producer and director mostly interested in social issues in Afghanistan.
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Since 2006, more than 30 young Afghan filmmakers took part to the workshops in Kabul. 33 films were made there and initiated the resurgence of documentary films in the country.
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