LIFE AFTER LIFE, a 2022 TV documentary, takes place one year after the Taliban took power, we talk to Afghan women artists who are now living in exile and lost everything they had worked for. German-Afghan journalist Sharmila Hashimi meets singer Sumaia Karimi at her current residence in Italy to reflect on everything that had happened.
– Coming to YouTube on November 1, 2026
– Supported via Startnext
– Catalogue of German Documentaries
FEMALE VOICE OF AFGHANISTAN is available as a series of videos on YouTube. Afghan female singers, introduced by cinematic portrait films, perform concerts and virtually meet Europe-based musicians to create fusion songs. Filmed in 2021 on location in Kabul and Berlin and released in the form of a VIRTUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL.
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produced by ZEITGENÖSSISCHE OPER BERLIN · in cooperation with CROSSGENERATION MEDIA
executive producers MONA ISABELLE, TAREK MARDINI · curator & co-director YALDA YAZDANI
producer & director ANDREAS ROCHHOLL · editor & co-director SEBASTIAN LEITNER · moderator SHARMILA HASHIMI
sound mix, Berlin VOLKER WENDISCH · animator FIDAN AKHUNDOVA · assistant director, Kabul ZABIULLAH SAIFI ASKARI
additional camera CHRISTOPH WIELAND · translator QAIS ALAMDAR · main theme by CEYHUN KAYA
additional music by JAN GERDES · funded by HAUPTSTADTKULTURFONDS
featuring MASHAL ARMAN · ROUYA DOOST · FRESHTA FAROKHI · SUMAIA KARIMI · SADIQA MADADGAR · NARIA NOUR · WAJIHA RASTAGAR · GHAWGHA TABAN with the musicians VALENTINA BELLANOVA · SHUKRIA HAMEEDI · CEYHUN KAYA · MAHAN MIRARAB · PETRA NACHTMANOVA · FAROOGH RAHMANI · GOLNAR SHAHYAR · NORA THIELE · MISCHA TANGIAN and book author MARIAM T. AZIMI