Yellow House Afghanistan

“I＇ve been working in Afghanistan since 1999. In 2007, I made ‘Miscreants of Taliwood’ as a protest against the Taliban attempting to destroy the Pashto film industry. That gained me a scary note from the Pakistani Taliban threatening to remove my face from my body.

My wife Hellen Rose and I have ignored the risks and made two subsequent documentaries: ‘Love City’ and ‘Snow Monkey’ in Jalalabad. Simultaneously, we created the Yellow House Arts Centre.

‘Yellow House Afghanistan’ weaves this 25-year history through our recent experiences working from 2021 to 2024 under the Taliban regime.

As much as any travel film, ‘Yellow House Afghanistan’ enters spectacularly beautiful landscapes which have never previously been filmed.

It is incredible that I safely entered villages, where the people were kind and welcoming to me, when they have all had someone close killed by outsider invaders.