📽️ Three Songs for Benazir

This is a gem of a film, a 22 minute pure vérité short documentary that took 6 years to shoot. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 2020 for best short documentary and remarkably found its way into Netflix. 

The filmmakers followed a young Afghan couple, Shaista and Benazir, living in a camp for displaced people in Kabul under the watch of the ever present surveillance airship. It is impressive how much is told in only 22 minutes, with no narration or interviews – just fly-on-the-wall observational cinematography. In this film, we see a trapped young man, intelligent and full of life, who is not allowed to “fly” due to his circumstances, very much like the caged birds so often shown in the film. This story of young love and dreams in an impossible situation is told with tenderness and candor, marked by three songs Shaista sang to Benazir.
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