Afghan Filmmaker Sahra Mani in Venice With ‘Kabul Melody’ Project Says Lives of Kabul Music School Students Are at Risk
gap financing market with the documentary “Kabul Melody,” says the lives of more than 150 students of Kabul’s National Institute of Music are at risk after armed Taliban guards shuttered the school and smashed all the musical instruments inside.
Mani cited the widely reported killing last week of Afghan folk singer Fawad Andarabi, who was dragged from his home and shot in the head by a Taliban fighter in a restive mountain province north of Kabul. She called that killing an alarm bell about the prospect of a return to the type of rule imposed in Afghanistan by the Taliban from 1996 to 2001 when they last held power and banned most forms of music as un-Islamic.
Ensembles from the school, including the all-female Zohra orchestra, mainly made up of girls and women from a Kabul orphanage aged between 13 and 20, have performed around the world from Carnegie Hall in New York to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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