No Book This Year (2024)
• November 1st, 2024 • 0h 37min
Documentary
Overview
"No Book This Year" tells the story of Yalda, a former staff member of Afghanistan's booth at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Years after the booth's closure, Yalda takes it upon herself to independently relaunch Afghanistan's presence at the fair. Despite numerous challenges and obstacles, her unwavering determination to showcase Afghan literature and culture shines through, illustrating the resilience of the human spirit in preserving cultural heritage.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Prince of Nothingwood
Released on: 2017-06-14
Documentary
French documentarist Sonia Kronlund follows actor and director Salim Shaheen, an Afghan movie star w...
No Greater Love
Released on: 2017-11-10
Documentary, War
No Greater Love explores a combat deployment through the eyes of an Army chaplain, as he and his men...
Afghan Star
Released on: 2008-12-03
Documentary, Music
This documentary on the effect the talent competition "Afghan Star" has on the incredibly diverse in...
Comme une pluie de parfum
Released on: 2015-01-01
Documentary
Five Afghan men try to reach Europe. The filmmakers followed them for over six months, filming their...
The Forbidden Reel
Released on: 2020-03-03
Documentary, History
According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art...
The Fallen
Released on: 2008-11-15
Documentary
A powerful and poignant film in which families and friends of those who have died fighting in Afghan...
Korengal
Released on: 2014-05-30
Documentary, War
Korengal picks up where Restrepo left off; the same men, the same valley, the same commanders, but a...
Broken Token
Released on: 2024-10-19
Documentary
A single female voice sings of waiting in her garden for her ‘dark-eyed sailor’ to return from war, ...
Massoud the Afghan
Released on: 1998-09-30
Documentary, History
The friendship between Christophe de Ponfilly and Commander Massoud, a legendary figure of the Afgha...
Taxi to the Dark Side
Released on: 2008-01-18
Documentary
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo B...
Bulletproof Salesman
Released on: 2008-03-10
Documentary
Fidelis Cloer is a self-confessed war profiteer who found The Perfect War when the US invaded Iraq. ...
Combat Obscura
Released on: 2018-03-01
Documentary, War, History
Former combat videographer Miles Lagoze presents personal footage of U.S. Marines in the Afghan war ...
Restrepo
Released on: 2010-06-25
War, Documentary
Directors Hetherington and Junger spend a year with the 2nd Battalion of the United States Army loca...
Armadillo
Released on: 2010-05-27
Documentary, War
Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against ...
Disaster Capitalism
Released on: 2018-02-22
Documentary
A documentary that reveals the underbelly of the global aid and investment industry. It's a complex ...
Afghanistan Unveiled
Released on: 2004-11-16
Documentary
Filmed by the first-ever team of women video journalists trained in Afghanistan, this uncompromising...
Afghanistan: The Unknown Country
Released on: 2011-07-06
Documentary
A journey through the parts of Afghanistan that don't normally feature in news coverage to meet some...
He Named Me Malala
Released on: 2015-09-12
Documentary
A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Y...
The Secret War
Released on: 2006-12-04
Documentary
Controversal documentary focusing on events in Afghanistan in 2002 in which Danish soldiers handed o...
Flee
Released on: 2021-06-17
Documentary, Animation
Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child...