To Western eyes, Afghanistan appears only as a land of war and devastation. But an Oscar-nominated documentary reveals a touching truth – that Afghanistan can also be a place of love.The Netflix short Three Songs for Benazir celebrates the bond of Shaista and Benazir, a young couple attempting to make a life together in a camp for internally displaced Afghans in Kabul.“In the camp there is a sadness and a hard life and there is war, there is suffering.
There are no jobs. But there is also something else,” says Gulistan Mirzaei, an Afghan native who directed the film with his wife, Elizabeth Mirzaei. “There is poetry… There is love.
It was important to me to show a story of love from this camp and from my country.”The Mirzaeis first encountered their protagonist Shaista many years ago while volunteering for an NGO that distributed food in the camp.
He was then in his early teens.“When I met Shaista he was singing and laughing and he was funny and smart, he was full of hopes and dreams,” recalls Gulistan. “Shaista and I had a very deep connection… We were both displaced by war.
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