A line in Netflix's Best of the Best comparing male attention to the last plane out of Kabul has triggered online criticism. Viewers say the joke turns the trauma of Afghanistan's 2021 evacuation into ...

Shahrbanoo Sadat's "No Good Men," which opens the Berlin Film Festival, mixes romance, politics and humor in ways that Afghan cinema has never done before. It's the tale of a camerawoman at a Kabul TV ...

Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat’s romantic comedy “No Good Men” has been set as this year’s Berlin Film Festival opener. The German-backed film, set inside a Kabul newsroom during the democratic era ...

Netflix’s new comedy Best of the Best has found itself at the centre of an online debate after a dialogue referencing the 2021 Kabul evacuation drew criticism from viewers. The film, directed by Lena ...

FILE - Rahmatullah Ezati plays back a film reel in the projection room of the historic Ariana Cinema in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 8, 2021, before it was demolished in December 2025 by Taliban ...

BERLIN (AP) — A surprising and touching Afghan political rom-com that is said to feature the first ever on-screen kiss in an Afghan movie opens the 76th Berlin Film Festival Thursday. Set in a Kabul ...

Afghan director and actress Shahrbanoo Sadat laughs as she attends a press conference for the film "No Good Men" presented in Berlinale Special Gala at the 76th ...

Sadat spoke to Variety about the film. Your previous films were dramas. What made you want to make a rom-com? I wanted to make a romantic comedy because I realized that the popular kind of films about ...