2024 marks the 9th year of the home-grown Ghan International Film Festival Australia (GIFFA) started in Adelaide in 2016 by migrant Afghan film maker Fahim Hashimy. This thriving event now runs for 6 days and screens across Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. As always, proceeds from GIFFA supports education and nutrition programs for street children in Kabul, a group of children collected from street of Kabul by GIFFA team members.
In addition to short films of high artistic merit by unknown film makers, highlights from previous GIFFAs have included special screenings of films such as Letter to the President by Roya Sadat, Hava, Maryam, Ayesha by Sharaa Karimi, and the Oscar award nominated film Boz Kashi Boys.
What was originally a rare opportunity for emerging Afghan film makers to show their work to international audiences has now become almost a lifeline for creativity and activism under the current state of oppression, hardship and turmoil in Afghanistan. Come along to show your support and be inspired by the astounding capacity, determination and visual beauty embodied in the GIFFA selections 2024.
GIFFA will feature high-quality short films (up to 40-minutes duration), documentary plus one feature film (TBA). The films will be auteur and ambitious cinema, with a high artistic value, tackling both independent and original themes.
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