Afghanistan, May 13 -- Afghanistan's national film institution has been dismantled, losing its historical identity and function, signaling a shift in cultural policy.
The Interim administration has officially downgraded Afghan Film, the country's sole state-run film production and archival institution, renaming it the "Audiovisual Management Department." According to Sahraa Karimi, former director of Afghan Film, the restructuring has resulted in the dismissal of most of its employees and the erasure of the institution's historic identity.
Karimi, who served as the head of Afghan Film before the fall of Kabul in August 2021, revealed in a social media post that only a handful of administrative staff remain. Their main responsibility, she ...