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Independents Night: kabul transit David Edwards, Gregory Whitmore & Maliha Zulfacar, 2006; 85m Thurs Nov 30: 6:30pm Admission: $10, $7 for students, $6 FSLC & IFP members. There will be a Q&A after the screening. A joint program of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and IFP. With its title is suggesting both its subject and its style, kabul transit presents a portrait of a fragmented country in transition via a glancing, observational look at its capital city and environs at a very particular moment in its history. For centuries a crossroads of trade, Afghanistan has been frequently invaded and plundered. Its more recent decades of Soviet occupation, civil war, Taliban rule, and the U.S. and "allied" bombing and invasion post-9/11 have left it a physically devastated landscape with inhabitants both shell-shocked and resilient and at once grateful, resentful, and wary of the new occupiers. A radio voice calmly reassures that terrorists sow the seeds of their own defeat, while a city official listens to a sales pitch for expensive new fire equipment that can also safely disperse demonstrators and wonders who will pay for it. A spiritual healer dispenses an amulet to keep a young man's car from breaking down while an herbalist laments the shorter life expectancy of Afghan men and young university women question whether Afghans are really being rescued from oppression. NATO soldiers supervise the repair of a sewage system and the building of a school as children play in the ghostly remains of a bombed-out Soviet concert hall. Eschewing narration, and using minimal titles to denote the location of each scene, filmmakers David Edwards, Gregory Whitmore, and Maliha Zulfarar assemble a mosaic of images and experiences that convey the sorrow, black humor, irony, and surprising hope that can exist in the most untenable of situations. Independents Night is devoted exclusively to showcasing New York premieres of American documentaries. This rich genre comes to the big screen every other month at the Walter Reade Theater, making it one of the city’s foremost venues for nonfiction work. With the filmmakers in attendance, Independents Night is always a provocative evening of discovery and exploration. Come to the screening and stay for the Q&A after the film.

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