2021·Documentary·24m
6.9
★
The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced persons in Kabul—struggles to balance his dreams of being the first from his tribe to join the Afghan National Army with the responsibilities of starting a family. Even as Shaista’s love for Benazir is palpable, the choices he must make to build a life with her have profound consequences.
Directed by Gulistan Mirzaei and Elizabeth Mirzaei
afghanistan
poverty
young love
poor
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66 reviews
Taianh
6.0★ · 05/17/26
No other choice
No other choice
Violeta Olender
6.0★ · 02/14/26
"Si los talibanes no me matan, los extranjeros tiran una bomba".Los documentales no son mi estilo pero igual me gustó. Corto y muestra la guerra en Afganistán sin lo cliché de sufrimiento y mala vida en un ambiente inhóspito, sino mas de esperanza y como ser patriota y nacionalista no es igual a servir al ejército/los talibanes o poner a los extranjeros que los vigilan como héroes.
Lo único que no me cerró fue ver como una pareja adolescente ya estaba casada y con hijos...
"Si los talibanes no me matan, los extranjeros tiran una bomba".Los documentales no son mi estilo pero igual me gustó. Corto y muestra la guerra en Afganistán sin lo cliché de sufrimiento y mala vida en un ambiente inhóspito, sino mas de esperanza y como ser patriota y nacionalista no es igual a servir al ejército/los talibanes o poner a los extranjeros que los vigilan como héroes.
Lo único que no me cerró fue ver como una pareja adolescente ya estaba casada y con hijos...
アナ
7.0★ · 02/09/26
que músicas boas, meu deus
apenas uma pequena análise sobre a realidade de negligenciados, com uma máscara de cultura e pequenos tons de esperança e felicidade no meio do enorme caos de terras esquecidas
apenas uma pequena análise sobre a realidade de negligenciados, com uma máscara de cultura e pequenos tons de esperança e felicidade no meio do enorme caos de terras esquecidas
que músicas boas, meu deus
apenas uma pequena análise sobre a realidade de negligenciados, com uma máscara de cultura e pequenos tons de esperança e felicidade no meio do enorme caos de terras esquecidas
apenas uma pequena análise sobre a realidade de negligenciados, com uma máscara de cultura e pequenos tons de esperança e felicidade no meio do enorme caos de terras esquecidas
armi
8.0★ · 02/01/26
A must-watch.
Binazir—given name. Feminine. Literally translating to "without equal". Also: incomparable, unparalleled.
There are people living out there, trying to sing lovesongs. Will the world allow them? This is one of the most incisive questions a short documentary can pose, and it is precisely where this film finds its moral and narrative force. Shaista's options aren't many: 1) join the national army, which implies fighting the Taliban and endangering your community by making them a target of their militia, or 2) labor in the opium fields, which are far more beautiful than what you might imagine. Both will have drastic consequences.
Refusing spectacle or sentimentality, the film adheres to a rigorously human trajectory. It foregrounds desire, intimacy, and dignity as universal conditions, while also elucidating the structural logic that reproduces and sustains poverty through coercing individuals into ever-narrowing choices. The result is a work that resonates through restraint, asking its audience for recognition more than anything, without the need for pity.
Here is a lens. Can you see the human through it? I don't think it should be very hard to see. The humanity reeks from all those clay walls.
Binazir—given name. Feminine. Literally translating to "without equal". Also: incomparable, unparalleled.
There are people living out there, trying to sing lovesongs. Will the world allow them? This is one of the most incisive questions a short documentary can pose, and it is precisely where this film finds its moral and narrative force. Shaista's options aren't many: 1) join the national army, which implies fighting the Taliban and endangering your community by making them a target of their militia, or 2) labor in the opium fields, which are far more beautiful than what you might imagine. Both will have drastic consequences.
Refusing spectacle or sentimentality, the film adheres to a rigorously human trajectory. It foregrounds desire, intimacy, and dignity as universal conditions, while also elucidating the structural logic that reproduces and sustains poverty through coercing individuals into ever-narrowing choices. The result is a work that resonates through restraint, asking its audience for recognition more than anything, without the need for pity.
Here is a lens. Can you see the human through it? I don't think it should be very hard to see. The humanity reeks from all those clay walls.
A must-watch.
Binazir—given name. Feminine. Literally translating to "without equal". Also: incomparable, unparalleled.
There are people living out there, trying to sing lovesongs. Will the world allow them? This is one of the most incisive questions a short documentary can pose, and it is precisely where this film finds its moral and narrative force. Shaista's options aren't many: 1) join the national army, which implies fighting the Taliban and endangering your community by making them a target of their militia, or 2) labor in the opium fields, which are far more beautiful than what you might imagine. Both will have drastic consequences.
Refusing spectacle or sentimentality, the film adheres to a rigorously human trajectory. It foregrounds desire, intimacy, and dignity as universal conditions, while also elucidating the structural logic that reproduces and sustains poverty through coercing individuals into ever-narrowing choices. The result is a work that resonates through restraint, asking its audience for recognition more than anything, without the need for pity.
Here is a lens. Can you see the human through it? I don't think it should be very hard to see. The humanity reeks from all those clay walls.
Binazir—given name. Feminine. Literally translating to "without equal". Also: incomparable, unparalleled.
There are people living out there, trying to sing lovesongs. Will the world allow them? This is one of the most incisive questions a short documentary can pose, and it is precisely where this film finds its moral and narrative force. Shaista's options aren't many: 1) join the national army, which implies fighting the Taliban and endangering your community by making them a target of their militia, or 2) labor in the opium fields, which are far more beautiful than what you might imagine. Both will have drastic consequences.
Refusing spectacle or sentimentality, the film adheres to a rigorously human trajectory. It foregrounds desire, intimacy, and dignity as universal conditions, while also elucidating the structural logic that reproduces and sustains poverty through coercing individuals into ever-narrowing choices. The result is a work that resonates through restraint, asking its audience for recognition more than anything, without the need for pity.
Here is a lens. Can you see the human through it? I don't think it should be very hard to see. The humanity reeks from all those clay walls.
celine
7.0★ · 10/29/25
i wonder the production behind this documentary
i wonder the production behind this documentary