PRODUCTIONS: A JOURNEY TO THE OTHER AFGHANISTAN

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Eloise Barbieri

Eloise Barbieri

52 min.

HD

There is a valley in Afghanistan where war never happened, the Wakhan, a piece of land, sometimes not larger than a few kilometres, which unravels amid high mountains. In its most remote part, the highlands of Pamir, live the last Kyrgyz nomads. Sunni Muslim, these shepherds that once travelled freely throughout Central Asia are now isolated over 4,000 meters.
A Western woman lives for two months in their winter camps. She arrives there with expectations that are quickly disappointed, disoriented as the days go by she learns to observe her hosts without preconceptions. This film is her discreet look to this unfamiliar world, she is the access key to the secret universe of women, while remaining a spectator, she reveals through her complicity and her sensitivity the fears and the hopes of these people ignored by the modern world.