EVENT DETAILS

CWNY / NYWIFT Screening Series Presents 
Return to Afghanistan
and
Two Months To Home
 
TUESDAY, JANUARY  22, 2007 at 6:30 pm
TWO BOOTS PIONEER THEATER

155 E. 3rd Street, near corner of Avenue A
Tickets:
CWNY and NYWIFT members - $6.50*
non-members - $10.00
Buy Tix at
www.twoboots.com/pioneer or call 212-591-0434
 
Screening followed by Q&A with filmmaker and cast and an
Afterparty with free pizza and a free drink.

RSVP to screenings@nywift.org to reserve.
*must show card to receive discount.

ABOUT THE FILMS:

RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN (Vida Zaher Khadem, director; 84 mins, 2007) is a film about forces of destiny colliding against human will on the road of destiny where no one knows what will happen next?

The documentary follows the true event story of an Afghan American woman who wants to direct a documentary in Afghanistan's during the Taliban regime. Though the male dominated society - including her own uncle - contests her directorial role she persists and leaves the country successfully with eighty two hours of Raw Footage. She returns to New York City with her small crew on August 13th 2001. A month later it is September 11th.

Safe in a democratic nation she is now faced with new challenges in a post Nine Eleven world where nothing and no one is seen the same. RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN gives us a personal account of one woman's struggle to take charge of her own destiny despite intense social and personal pressures. 

TWO MONTHS TO HOME (Janice Ahn, director/ producer, dist. by Third World Newsreel), is a short documentary about an Afghan woman who has fled the Taliban prior to 9-11 gets taken from her family and home in New York, and told she will be deported.