Afghan Filmmaker Sahra Mani, in Venice With ‘Kabul Melody’ Project, Says Lives of Kabul Music School Students Are at Risk
variety.comNick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAfghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who is at the Venice Film Festival gap financing market with the documentary “Kabul Melody,” says the lives of more than 150 students of Kabul’s National Institute of Music (ANIM) are at risk after armed Taliban guards shuttered the school and smashed all the musical instruments inside.A few days after the Taliban occupied Kabul “they went to the school and smashed all the instruments,” says Mani who has been making a documentary about the school for the past five years and managed to leave Afghanistan before this happened.But while some of the students at ANIM –– where the student body is roughly split evenly between young female and male musicians –– have succeeded in.
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