• Hollywoodgate

    Hollywoodgate



Hollywoodgate

a film by Ibrahim Nash’at

Hollywoodgate

Germany, USA | 2023 | 92:00 min

Formal Categories

Current Affairs Human Interest War / Peace Human Rights Politics

Content Categories

Documentary
original Pashto, Dari, English version
Synopsis
The day after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban immediately move to occupy the Hollywood Gate complex, claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul. The Taliban find what the most technologically advanced military in history left behind: aircrafts, weapons, and valuable military equipment. Baffled by the technology, Malawi Mansour, the newly assigned Air Force commander, orders his soldiers to inventory and repair everything they can. Mukhtar, motivated to one day conquer the world, arrives at Hollywood Gate aiming to build a high-ranking military career.
While Malawi Mansour and Mukhtar are focused on maximizing their own personal objectives, their comrades continue to repair the weapons left behind at Hollywood Gate. AK-47s that were once used by the US and NATO are now in the hands of the Taliban; helicopters and fighter jets that were thought to be destroyed now lethally bomb the opposition, creating untold collateral damage in the process; and the use of international documentarians for the purposes of propaganda is now underway.
Over the course of one year, the film exposes the transformation of a fundamentalist militia into a military regime. [80 Venice IFF]
Festivals/Awards
2023
80 La Biennale di Venezia – 80 Venice IFF
19 Zurich Film Festival
Cast and Crew
  • Director Ibrahim Nash’at
  • Director of Photography Ibrahim Nash’at
  • Editor Atanas Georgiev, Marion Tuor
  • Sound Frank Kruse
  • Score Volker Bertelmann
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