LOVE CITY JALALABAD
Feature Documentary
Feature Documentary
96 minutes
Internationally renowned filmmaker and artist George Gittoes has learned that documenting frontline action is not enough; he wants to use art to bring about change.
George forms an artists’ collective in the western Afghan city of Jalalabad – a province long controlled by the Taliban. Someone only as brave and creative as George would then dare to make movies in Jalalabad, recruiting female actors from Pakistan (there are no Pashtun-speaking Afghan women actors) to join Australian performance artist Hellen Rose, and local action star Amir Shah in their quest to bring love back to Afghanistan.
This fearless documentary will show how the progressive youth of Afghanistan are rejecting the use of armed force and see film as an alternative means of bringing peace and social chance to their war torn and occupied country.
DIRECTOR:
George Gittoes
PRODUCER:
Torstein Grude
CO-PRODUCER:
Lizzette Atkins
EDITOR:
Nick Meyers
DURATION:
96min
YEAR:
2013