PROGRAM 2008

Besides great artistic work and remarkable screenings the people that are involved in this event make the Afghan Film Festival unique and extraordinary. We proudly present a diverse program and a venue for directors and producers as well as visitors from Cologne and from all over the world.

Thursday, February 28th 2008
Opening Party
(by-invitation-only)		 19:00 Uhr
Our guests:
- Prof. Dr. Maliha Zulfacar, Afghan Ambassador
- Nasrullah Noori, Deputy Consul General
- Mohamad Humayun Hamid Zada, afghan government
  spokesperson
- Elfi Scho-Antwerpes, Mayoress of Cologne
- Prof. Georg Quander, City Councillor in Charge of
  Cultural Affairs
- Dr. Lothar Theodor Lemper, chairman for culture comittee
  of Cologne
- Michael Grau, Federal Foreign Office

Our guests from Afghanistan:
- Mirwais Rekab, Film Director
- Alka Sadat, Film Director
- Mohsen Hosaini, Film Director
  
Music: Nageeb Gardizi                                                   
  
Vernissage of and Firoz Nori
  
Screenings:
- Documentation "Lima"
- Animation "Panaa - Shelter"
 20:00 Uhr
Friday, February 29th 2008
Panel discussion: Six years reconstruction - forlon hope?
 19:00 Uhr
Our guests:
- Nadia Karim, journalist and chairwoman of the
  Afghanischer Frauenverein e.V.
- Belal el Mogaddedi, development worker
- Dr. Said Musa Samimy, director of Afghan editorial
  department of the Deutschen Welle in Bonn/Germany
  
Short films:
1. "Water is Life"
2. "The way home"
3. "The Road"
4. "Naan - Bread"
5. "Patcha Khan"
6. "Laila"
7. "Panaa - Shelter"
 20:15 Uhr
2. Film: "Taxi to the Dark Side"
 22:45 Uhr
Saturday, March 1st 2008
Concert: Hakim Ludin
18:00 Uhr
1. Film: "Enemies of Happiness"
2. Film: "The poppy village"
 19:00 Uhr
3. Film: "Shared look – Theatre Life in Kabul"                     
4. Film: "Laila"
5. Film: "David shakes his head"
 21:00 Uhr
FUNKY KABUL PARTY                                                    
- DJ YAK
- DJ Lord X
- DJ Sprinta
- DJ Daniel Schlagwein
- DJ/VJ Pancho Villa Fonzee inc.
 		22:00 Uhr
Sunday, March 2nd 2008
Kids program:
Bricolage – we’re modeling kite (Mazhar Heidary)
(reservation required till February 27th 2008
info@afghanistan-filmfestival.de)		 15:00 Uhr
Dancing class: "Atan" Afghan National Dance
(with Leila Popal)		 15:00 Uhr
1. Film:"Taxi to the Dark Side" 19:30 Uhr
2. Film: "The Afghan’s Mourning"                                       
 22:00 Uhr
Monday, March 3rd 2008
Audiobook "The Kite Runner": reading by Markus Hoffmann with closing discussion
 17:00 Uhr
1. Film: "Cabal in Kabul"
Followed by an opportunity for discussion
Moderation Arnd Henze
Kindly supported by: Kölnische Gesellschaft
für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit e. V.		 19:30 Uhr
Short films:
1. "Companion"
2. "My Kabul"
3. "Dream of light"
4. "A day in the life of Rahela"
5. "Panaa - Shelter"
 21:30 Uhr
Tuesday, March 4th 2008
Panel discussion: Peace in Afghanistan - but how?
 18:30 Uhr
Our guests:
- Prof. Hajo Schmidt, scientific director of Instituts for
  peace and democracy of the Distance Learning
  University Hagen
- Dieter Herrmann, Journalist                                             
- Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Reinhard Meyers, Professor for
  international relations
  at the Westphalian Wilhelms-University Muenster
  
1. Film: "The Eyes of Ariana"
 19:45 Uhr
2. Film: "9th company"
 21:15 Uhr
Wednesday, March 5th 2008
Afghan literature:
Poetry and music with Dr. Salamat Schiftah
Tabla Yama Karim (Enisa Nesimovic and Volker Wolf)		 18:00 Uhr
Short films:
1. "1,2,3"
2. "We are postmodernist"
3. "Celebrate Eid behind the window"
4. "Lima"
 19:30 Uhr
1. Film: "The foreigner"
2. Film: "Flora Face"
3. Film: "Panaa - Shelter"                                                 
 22:00 Uhr