Iran’s president is calling for elections in Afghanistan to determine the future of the country, where he hopes peace will return after Western troops have left and the Taliban have seized control.
Speaking on state TV, Ebrahim Raisi said that the Afghan people should vote to determine their own government “as soon as possible, adding that government should be established there which is elected by the votes and the will of the people.
In the meantime, Afghan female filmmakers who fled the Taliban are begging the world to not forget the Afghan people and to support its artists.
The women spoke at a panel discussion at the Venice Film Festival to warn that a country without culture will eventually lose its identity.
Sahraa Karimi, the first female president of the Afghan Film Organization, choked up in telling reporters all that had been lost after the Taliban completed their takeover of the country.
She cited numerous films in pre-and-post production, filmmaking workshops, insurance policies that had all ground to a halt, and film archives that are now in the hands of the Taliban.
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