With the war in Afghanistan finally over, and thousands of Afghan refugees now starting their new lives in America, we are presenting a special “Afghan Film Festival” on all five Sundays in October. Anyone who sees at least three of the five films will receive a free “Make Afghan Refugees Welcome” t-shirt.  Our regular programming for the month will also focus on earlier waves of immigrants to America and other related topics.  Email plim@ku.edu for the Zoom links and additional information.

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Afghan Festival #5: Kandahar
Torbaaz, the film originally scheduled to end our “Afghan Film Festival” on October 31 at 1:30 PM, is now available only for streaming on Netflix, so we are substituting Kandahar, an extraordinary film about a young Afghan woman, now a journalist in Canada, who returns to Afghanistan prior to 9/11 to save her sister in Kandahar, who had not been able to escape earlier with the family to Canada. Her perilous journey through the desert, along with all the people she encounters on the way, is breathtakingly photographed, especially evocative now, 20 years later, when Afghanistan is back under Taliban rule. (2001, in English, Persian and Pashtu, with subtitles, 81 minutes.)
October 31, 2021 1:30 pm