Hollywoodgate

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 US 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.

Venice International Film Festival 2023
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2023
Thessaloniki Internatonal Documentary Film Festival 2023