Akram Khorami, a famous Afghan actor, passed away on Tuesday.

Mr Khorami spent 30 years of his life in Afghan cinema and has acted in different roles in films.

After acting in different films including Meeting with Top Brasses, Slave of Love, Siege, Men of Word, he become much more famous among the Afghan people.

He has left five offspring behind, including two sons and three daughters.

He was born in 1931 in Kabul in Murad Khani.

Khorami had recently moved to a house living a lonely life where he died aged eighty.

He graduated from Estiqlal High School in Kabul and then started to work for a bank in Kabul.

He stepped into the cinema world when he was 32.

But during shooting a scene some three years ago, he got some injuries on his back which later sidelined him to continue acting.

Some Afghan actors said art and cinema have hugely been ignored by the government.

"Information and Culture Ministry visited him for many times and helped him," Abdul Latif, Head of Afghan Film, told TOLOnews.

Afghan cinema actors urged the government to step up some measures to improve Afghan cinema and make it global.

Some children from Afghan circus training organisation who flew to Italy nearly one month ago to perform some circus shows, have returned with a cup.

Afghanistan's circus organisation urged Afghan Olympic to provide them with some chances to take part in European circus competitions.

Afghan circus group, which mostly include Afghan children, called on the government to encourage them.

A circus instructor told TOLOnews that their programmes, intended to encourage and boost spirit among Afghan children, haven't been supported by any organisation.

The Afghan circus group consisted of five boys and five girls in their teens performed 24 circus shows in a circus camp in Italy.

"We were applauded and encouraged by people and government of Italy, we all really felt happy during our stay," Fazila, a circus performer, told TOLOnews. "But when we arrived in our own country, it was really disappointing, because our government was unaware that we brought a cup."

A circus trainer said the government pays no attention to the children. He said we expected at least some related organisations to support and encourage the children just for what they gained in Italy.

"We several times invited senior government officials to come and participate in our shows," said Shaima Shamim, a circus trainer.

The children, who are members of the circus training, are students and come to the circus organisation to improve their circus abilities after school times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The officials at the "Afghan Film" say the government has paid no attention to the Afghan Cinema in the past nine years

The director of "Afghan Film", a state-owned film production company, says the privatisation of cinema in Afghanistan has weakened governmental cinema in the country.

According to the "Afghan Film" employees, they can produce high-quality films since they have 40 years of experience, but only with the government support.

TOLOnews reporter visited one of the cinemas in Kabul, for which the viewers pay 50 Afs for a half-nude Pakistani film.

Most cinema fans do not even know the etiquetes of going to the cinema; they smoke and sit in the cinema improperly.

The owners of the movie theatres also have no objection against such people visiting cinemas, since they do not want to lose customers and lose their income source.

The viewers say dances, songs and violent scenes in the films can attract them more and they do not care about other things in the film.

"These films are good and I like such films," Ahmad, a 27-year-old cinema fan said.

Meanwhile, the directors of some cinemas in the country say the reason for a lack of Afghan film productions forces many people to watch foreign films, especially films produced in the neighbouring countries.

They say the production of better Afghan films will increase their incomes, and they wil not face criticism.

"We publish these films and sometimes publish Afghan films. Some filmmakers can not publish high-quality films since they are not in a good economic condition," said one of the private cinema runners.

Recently, a famous Afghan film named "Lala-i-Siah" meaning the Black Tulip has sparked Afghan cinemas.

The film is produced and directed by Sonia Nasery, an Afghan-American film producer, with the cooperation of ‘Afghan Film' in two months. Its technical work was completed in Los Angeles city of the United States.

The film depicts the daily life of an Afghan family that has returned to their homeland after years of living abroad as immigrants and has opened a western-style restaurant.

Most of the film's characters are Afghans. Many film producers have called the Lalai Siah a successful Afghan picture.

"This is an extraordinary film, since they had a team of foreigners with them. It is a professional film in terms of camera, light, music and all other film standards," Mr Latif, head of the Afghan Film said.

According to the Afghan Film officials, film producers have produced a number of films recently, of which the films Sebi az Behesht (An Apple from the Paradise), Man Asp Mekhwaham Na Zan (I Want a Horse, Not a Wife), Hilale Eid Pase Panjara (The Eid Crescent Behind the Grate) and Hamsaya Wa Madrasa (Neighbour and Madrassa) are among the best films.

Some of these films have also proved successful inside and outside Afghanistan in different film festivals.

Man Megozaram "I am Passing", an Afghan documentary film directed by Shabnam Zaryab that explains difference of opinion among old women; won the best film award of the "One Country, One Film" film festival in France

This is the first time a documentary film by an Afghan woman has won the best film award in a French film festival.

The "One Country, One Film" film festival was held from 30th July to first August this year in France's Apchet area, in which the "Man Megozaram" film by Shabnam Zaryab won the best film award.

"The One Film, One Country" is a new film festival that has been holding film festivals annually since 2008.

The Afghan documentary film is written by Shabnam Zaryab, the daughter of Mohammed Azam Rahnaward Zaryab, a well known Afghan writer and researcher.

The 25- year- old Shabnam Zaryab has studied Law in France and is now living in Paris.

The film is about the difference of opinion among old women in a nursing home who have a lonely life and want to live together.

Afghan film producers say the film won the award after being nominated for the best films of the festival.

"Many may have made films about retarded people, but Shabnam's viewpoint as an eastern girl who has origins in fictional literature is different towards the issue," Sediq Barmak, a famous Afghan film maker told TOLOnews.

"I think this is an extraordinary motive for Shabnam who produced her first film and won the first award," he added.

Shabnam Zaryab in her first artistic piece has depicted the lives of old women; among whom four women have much different points of views with each other.

Mr Barmak said that Shabnam Zaryab has shown her artistic abilities in her first film.