The Silhouettes

Afsaneh Salari • 79m

خانه Directed by Afsaneh Salari • 2020 • Iran/Philippines At the height of the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1982, 1.5 million Afghans took a long journey to the border of Iran to flee war. TAGHI, born after that generation, is a testament to and unwilling to inherit the limitations of his parents’ refugee status, navigates outside the protective walls of his family to trace his identity and the doors to his future in the homeland he never knew. As the war continues to rage in Afghanistan, what future awaits him in which land?