Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan

Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.

Runtime

1h 48m

Director

Mike Leigh

Cast

Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré

A futuristic drama about five survivors trying to make sense of a New World after a devastating urban catastrophe challenges their basic human needs. Set in a bleak, post-urban landscape in the aftermath of the Third World War, the film presents a strangely limited environment where a single woman and four men are forced to communicate...

Runtime

1h 12m

Director

Yasuaki Nakajima

Cast

Jacqueline Bowman, Velina Georgi, Zorikh Lequidre

Djomeh is a young Afghan man who has come to live in Iran because of family trouble. Working as a milk boy, he encounters discrimination from the Iranian villagers and disdain from Habib, a fellow Afghani to whose trust Djomeh was given. The only person who shows any friendliness to him is his employer, who Djomeh asks to intercede for...

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

Hassan Yektapanah

Cast

Rashid Akbari, Mahmoud Behraznia, Valiollah Beta

Before immigrating to the West, Abdallah travels to the coastal city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, to visit his mother. Although he grew up there, Abdallah feels anything but at home in his old neighborhood: he can no longer speak the local dialect and he wears western clothes that immediately cast him as an outsider. But, as Abdallah spe...

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Abderrahmane Sissako

Cast

Khatra Ould Abder Kader, Maata Ould Mohamed Abeid, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould

Her Majesty is a coming-of-age film about a young girl who realizes her lifelong dream when Queen Elizabeth II comes to visit her small hometown.

Runtime

1h 45m

Cast

Sally Andrews, Anna Sheridan, Mark Clare