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Tell Spring Not to Come This Year

Name: Tell Spring Not to Come This Year
Director: Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy
Released: 2015
Duration: 87 mins

Synopsis

Tell Spring Not to Come This Year follows one unit of the Afghan National Army (ANA) over the course of their first year of deployment in Helmand without NATO support. It is an intimate film about the human side of combat, told from a largely unheard and misrepresented perspective, that explores the deep personal motivations, desires and struggles of a band of fighting men on the frontline. Without a NATO soldier in sight, and no narrative but their own, this is the war in Afghanistan, through the eyes of the Afghans who live it.
Berlin International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Details

Year: 2015
Type of project: Features
Running time: 87 mins
Director: Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy
Producer: Saeed Taji Farouky, Elizabeth C. Jones, Michael McEvoy
Executive Producer: Andre Singer, Scott Brown, Robert Elliott, David Kennedy, Nick Quested
Editor: Gareth Keogh
Director of Photography: Saeed Taji Farouky
Composer: Joe Lewis

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, Afghanistan coproduction

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Saboteur (US)

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