The UP Film Institute congratulates alumna Jewel Maranan (Producer) their creative documentary project The Silhouettes directed by Afsaneh Salari was supported by the Sundance Documentary Film Program.
The film tells of the height of the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1982, 1.5 million Afghans took a long journey to the border of Iran to flee war. Taghi, born after that generation and unwilling to inherit the limitations of his parents’ refugee status, navigates outside the protective walls of his family to trace his identity and the doors to his future in the homeland he never knew. As war continues to rage in Afghanistan, what future awaits him in which land?
The Silhouettes is a joint production by Docmaniacs Collective and Cinema Is Incomplete. Possibly the first ever collaborative film production between Iran and Philippines, it’s a collaboration based on shared vision, histories and worldviews.
Once again congratulations Jewel.
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