Thursday, April 14, 2011

film by an Afghan - American woman





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The Black Tulip (2010) [ behind the scene promo ]
The film depicts the fictional Mansouri family who start a restaurant in Kabul named The Poet’s Corner, where artists and writers meet.The story centers on Farishta (Cole), a woman who runs the cafe, where they serve wine in teapots and have poetry readings by locals and members of the U.S. military. This ultimately angers the Taliban who begin kidnapping and assassinating family and friends of the cafe


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with thanks to everything Afghanistan


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