KABUL YEAR ZERO (2023)
In development
Director: Aboozar Amini.
Logline: We do not choose where we are born. Afshin, Shukria, Varja and Fahad, born in Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine, invite us into their worlds – joyous and raucous, terrible and sad. A coming-of-age celebration of the sheer power for life, against all gravities and shadows of adult-created wars.
Selected for Berlinale Talents […]
TAHMINA (2023)
In development
Director: Aboozar Amin. Supported by Hubert Bal Fund (script development) and Netherlands Film Fund (production). Selected for Cinefondation 2019.
Producer: Jia Zhao, SILK ROAD FILM SALON the Netherlands; Co-producers: Aonan Yang & Andreas Mendritzki, Greenground Canada.
THE CINEASTE (2024)
In development
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 […]
KABUL, CITY IN THE WIND (2018)
Released
Documentary. Director: Aboozar Amini.
Opening film IDFA 2018. First Appearance Competition IDFA 2018. In co-production with NHK Enterrprises, Color of May Germany, KinoKabul Afghanistan. Supported by IDFA Bertha Fund, DMZ Fund, Netherlands Film Fund, Busan AND fund, EZEF fund.
Logline: A city is an orchestration of its inhabitants. The film portraits the city Kabul through daily details […]
WHERE IS KURDISTAN (2016)
Released
A short fiction film by Aboozar Amini. Premiered at IFFR 2016.
https://iffr.com/nl/2016/films/where-is-kurdistan
Logline: a damboora melody is playing somwhere in Rotterdam. For Dawood, a young man from Bamiyan, […]
ANGELUS NOVUS (2015)
Released
Premiered at IFFR2015.
A short fiction film about refugee children from Syria and Afghanistan in Turkey. Director: Aboozar Amini.
www.iffr.com/nl/films/angelus-novus
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/angelusnovusfilm
BECOMING THE STEEL ROSE (2016)
Released
Documentary about women (17 years old) football in China. Director: Yang Yang. In coproduction with Beijing Southern Clouds Communication and CICC, PR China.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/112234817
ON THE STRING OF FORGETFULNESS (2011)
Released
Documentary about the complexity of life and choices of Afghan young people in Tehran. Director: Aboozar Amini. Screened at NFF 2011, Broadcast by BBC in 2012. In coproduction with Submarine NL.
KABULTEHRANKABUL (2010)
Released
KABULTEHRANKABUL (2010). Short documentary about the dilemma of the second generation Afghan immigrants grown up in Iran. Director: Aboozar Amini. Winner of Wildcard 2010, Dutch Film Fund. Screened at NFF 2010.