Would you risk your life for film? These Afghans did.
New Zealand filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly on A Flickering Truth, her new documentary about preserving Afghanistan's cinematic history.
Would you risk your life to preserve your country's cinematic treasures?
Pietra Brettkelly joins Shad to share the story of courageous Afghans who secretly shielded their nation's film history from the Taliban. The New Zealand filmmaker captures the struggle of these archivists and cinephiles in the moving new documentary, A Flickering Truth.
WEB EXTRA | Watch a clip from the film, an official selection of TIFF and VIFF 2015, below. In it, an emotional Afghan archive worker describes the destruction. "They burned them. They killed the films. The films bled into the ground."
