TELL SPRING NOT TO COME THIS YEAR
Director: Saeed Taji Farouky & Michael McEvoy
Producers: Michael McEvoy, Saeed Taji Farouky, & Elizabeth C Jones
2015 | 82 min
Afghanistan
Languages: Dari
Subtitles: English
Tell Spring Not to Come This Year follows a unit of the Afghan National Army (ANA) over the course of their first year of fighting in the Helmand province without NATO support. This intimate and humanist film explores a largely unheard and misrepresented perspective, revealing the deep personal motivations, desires and struggles of a band of fighting men on the front line. Without a NATO soldier in sight, and no narrative but their own, this is the war in Afghanistan, through the eyes of the Afghans who live it.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Best Cinematography and Best Sound Editing, SIMA Awards 2016
Panorama Audience Award and Amnesty International Film Prize, Berlin International Film Festival 2015
Human Rights Award Nominee, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2015
Best Feature Length, Madrid International Documentary Film Festival 2015
Best Documentary, Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival 2015