Project Description

Based on the novel The Cinematographer of Noqrah by Asef Soltanzadeh. Director: Aboozar Amini. Selected for Locarno Opendoors.

Logline: Asif is an Afghan cinéaste, deeply passionate about cinema. He cannot abandon his precious collection of films that includes the works of Ozu, Kurosawa and Chaplin despite the ban on films by the Taliban. Caught by the Taliban, Asef asks to screen them just one film before they kill him. After he screens the film they let him live under one condition: that he must show them a new film every day…