Based on true events around 2019, The Burdened follows the struggles of a married couple and their three children after both husband and wife lose their jobs as a result of the country’s economic crisis.
When the United States withdrew from its 20-year “forever war” in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with weaponry—a portion of the over $7 billion in US armaments still in the country. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s Hollywoodgate spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.
Join us for a Q&A with director Ibrahim Nash'at following the screening.
UPCOMING Screenings
RUNNING TIME
89min
VENUE
FORMAT
DCP
LANGUAGE
In Dari, English, Pashtu with English subtitles
TICKET INFORMATION
General Admission: $16
Members: $8
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