16 Days in Afghanistan
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| Directed by | Anwar Hajher |
| Produced by | Mithaq Kazimi |
| Music by | Ahmad Shah Hassan, Larry Porter, Hariprasad Chaurasia |
| Cinematography | Karim Hamdard |
| Edited by | Mithaq Kazimi |
| Distributed by | KDK Factory |
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60 minutes |
| Country | United States, Afghanistan, India |
| Language | English, Pashto, Dari |
| Budget | 100,000 USD |
16 Days in Afghanistan is a 2007 documentary about the journey of Afghan-American Anwar Hajher (director) traveling to his homeland Afghanistan after 25 years to rediscover his country. The film is produced by Mithaq Kazimi and is the first documentary since the fall of Taliban to be shot in those provinces which remain under the heavy influence of the Taliban. It is also the first professionally produced documentary about Afghanistan by a team of Afghan filmmakers and has become a reference film used by many, including Penguin Books's study guides about Afghan-related books.
It is perhaps one of the earliest and most prominent documentaries to date that has been made in and about Afghanistan and shows in many top lists, including IMDb's Most Popular Titles by country and on Amazon's bestselling movies and TV on Afghanistan right after the Oscar nominee, Restrepo. as well as 16,000 likes on Facebook. It was selected as part of the first Afghan art exhibit show in the British Museum opened by president Hamid Karzai.
In 2011, the film was selected by the National Museum of Afghanistan in partnership with the National Geographic as an object of cultural heritage and will be showcased alongside other cultural artifacts in exhibitions around the world. The first of such exhibition was the Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World in the British Museum March–May, 2011.
16 Days in Afghanistan has also been shown in many television stations, film festivals and non-profit events around the world. It is in circulation in many public school and university libraries. It has become one of the major and key documentaries about Afghanistan and is used by many people and organizations as a resource. Some include the official study guide from Penguin Group for Khaled Hosseini's novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. The China International Television Corporation have used the documentary to explore and better understand the culture of Afghanistan to conduct their videoconferencing on Afghanistan.
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