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Friday, July 19 - Thursday, August 1, 2024

Friday, July 19 & Saturday, July 20 at 7:15 p.m.: Q&As with director Ibrahim Nash’at and producer Shane Boris moderated by Joe McGovern from the Wrap (Fri) and film critic Tomris Laffly (Sat)

When the United States withdrew from its twenty-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 U.S. 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.

Official Selection: Venice Film Festival, Telluride

• Country USA, Germany
• Language Dari and Pashto with English Subtitles, English
• Running Time 91 minutes
• Format DCP
• Distributor Fourth Act Film
• Director Ibrahim Nash'at
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil, Closed Captioning

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