A double bill screening of Kabul, City in the Wind (2018) and Kabul, Between Prayers (2025), followed by a Q&A with Dutch-Afghan filmmaker Aboozar Amini.

In Kabul, City in the Wind, Amini observes life in the city through the daily routines of bus driver Abas, who is struggling to keep his vehicle running, and two young brothers, Afshin and Benjamin, trying to navigate their new responsibilities after their father has left the country. Kabul, Between Prayers returns to the city years later, closely following the life of 23-year old Samim: a brother, husband and Taliban soldier.

Describing his work as emerging “from the perspective of a motherland tending her wounds,” Amini tells the tales of Kabul from within, as a space in which mercifulness and fanaticism coexist. Without seeking to explain or dramatise the extremism that frames much of life in Kabul, the films silently question what happens to a society when part of it clings to uncompromising ideologies, and how everyday life still continues in their presence.