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Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

8 May 2008

DOCUMENTARY (12A) 89min Having successfully supersized his career by eating way too many Big Macs, Morgan Spurlock has let fame go to his head or maybe he’s just contracted a bout of mad cow disease. His new documentary sees the campaigner try to do…

Women in Afghanistan

Women in Afghanistan

8 May 2008

This is Malalai Joya, often called ‘the bravest woman in Afghanistan’. Not yet 30, Joya has not only stood and been elected to the new Afghani parliament, but has stood up against corruption within that establishment. She’s currently suspended from her…

Reel Afghanistan - Afghan film festival

8 Feb 2008

'Culture and lifestyle are the diplomacy of the 21st century,’ claims Simon Jenkins in a recent article in The Guardian, suggesting that where in the past cultural exchange relied on diplomats - on men in suits - today it comes in myriad forms: travel…

The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner

(12A) 127min

13 Dec 2007

This adaptation of Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini’s popular novel arrives in cinemas trailed by the news that its two young stars have been evacuated out of Afghanistan by the film’s producers, for fear of reprisals from still active Sunni…