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Dir. Elizabeth Mirzaei, Gulistan Mirzaei - 2018 - Canada, Afghanistan - Languages: Dari, Pushto, Persian, English - Subtitles: English In a country offering almost no treatment services despite a crisis of addiction, Laila Haidari took the highly unusual decision to found her own pioneering addiction treatment center and a restaurant where all of the waiters are recovering heroin addicts.
Feb 1, 2022 · Gulistan Mirzaei and Elizabeth Mirzaei are the directors and producers of the short film Three Songs for Benazir, which won jury awards at several Oscar®-qualifying festivals including Full Frame, Yamagata, and Odense, was shortlisted for the Cinema Eye Honors and is now streaming on Netflix. Gulistan is a director from Afghanistan who spent part of his life as a refugee in Iran before returning to Kabul in 2001.
Associate Producers: Gulistan Mirzaei & Elizabeth Mirzaei. Second Camera: Elizabeth Mirzaei. Awards and Nominations: New Zealand’s entry into the Academy Awards. Venice Film Festival, Venezia Classici Award Nominee. Warsaw Film Festival, Best Documentary
Mar 26, 2018 · In an effort to both monitor and celebrate the evolution of these films to premiere-ready status, we reached out to the filmmakers as they were either winding their way through the festival circuit, or gearing up for it.In this edition of "The Feedback," we spotlight Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei's Laila at the Bridge, which they presented at DocuClub LA in September 2017.We caught up with Elizabeth Mirzaei via email in the days preceding the world premiere at CPH: DOX –and just ...
DIRECTED BY GULISTAN MIRZAEI, ELIZABETH MIRZAEI AFGHANISTAN // 2021 23 MINS. The story of Shaista, a young man who, newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced persons in Kabul struggles to balance his dreams of being the first from his tribe to join the army with the responsibilities of starting a family.
Gulistan Mirzaei was born in Afghanistan and spent much of his life as a refugee in Iran.When the Taliban fell in 2001, Gulistan returned to Kabul to work as assistant to the editor-in-chief at the country’s only independent newspaper, Kabul Weekly.
