Hollywoodgate
When the Taliban regained control of a ravaged Afghanistan following the United States’ withdrawal from the twenty-year “forever war”, it immediately found an American base loaded with weapons — a small representation of the over $7 billion in U.S. armaments still inside the country. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s film 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.
Ibrahim Nash’at (born 1990, in Jeddah) is an Egyptian documentary filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany. His career in journalism spans various formats as he has worked with several international channels and online platforms, such as Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, Business Insider, AJ+, Voice of America, and others. Ibrahim holds a master’s degree in documentary filmmaking from Met Film School. He co-edited Academy Award-nominated director Talal Derki’s latest film, Under the Sky of Damascus, which premiered at the Panorama section of Berlinale 2023, and won the Golden Alexander at the 25th Thessaloniki Doc Festival. Ibrahim has directed A Moment With the Wind, Home Away from Home and Berlin's Diversity, short films selected for multiple festivals around the world. Hollywoodgate is Ibrahim’s first feature-length film.
