Curious about what's going on in skateboarding classes for girls in Kabul? Watch this. Skateistan is a Kabul-based NGO that has been encouraging youth through skateboarding and education since 2007. Since then, it has grown from a handful of students to more than 400 per week. More than 40% are girls, which is more than any other coed sport in Afghanistan. Go girls!
AFGHANISTAN: Breaking the Rules By Bike
Afghanistan is one of the few countries in the world where women are not allowed to ride bicycles. How did Shannon Galpin become the first to do it? Watch as she mountain bikes across the Panjshir Valley, a mountainous region in northeastern Afghanistan.
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Frame By Frame (2015) Documentary On The Afghan Press
In 1996 the Taliban banned photography in Afghanistan. In 2014 as foreign troops pull out, international media will follow and the future of local afghan journalism is unknown. Frame by Frame is a documentary that explores the revolution of local photojournalism in Afghanistan.
AFGHANISTAN: Touch Down in Flight
This short film by Augustin Pictures takes us on a breathtaking tour of Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan. "As each of us has his own impression of Afghanistan that is predominantly marked with pictures of foreign forces, explosions and terror," the filmmakers have said, "we were privileged to have access to capture daily life and portray the people of Afghanistan."