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Salim Shaheen is the most prolific and popular actor-director-producer in Afghanistan. Passionate about cinema, he tirelessly makes Z-grade movies in a country that has been at war for over 30 years.
About a hundred kilometres away from Kabul, Salim Shaheen, the most popular and prolific actor-director-producer in Afghanistan, comes to show some of his 110 films and to shoot the 111th in the process. He has brought with him his regular troupe of actors, each more eccentric and out of control than the next. That trip is an opportunity for us to get to know Shaheen, a real movie buff who has been making Z movies tirelessly for more than thirty years in a country at war. 'Nothingwood' is the story of a man who spends his life making his childhood dreams come true.

Credits

Director
Sonia Kronlund
Screenwriter
Sonia Kronlund
Producer
Laurent Lavolé
Production Company
Gloria Films

About the Director

Sonia Kronlund
Since 2002, Sonia Kronlund has co-written scripts, run several documentary series for television and is the producer of the daily program ‘Les Pieds sur Terre’ for the public radio channel France Culture. She has directed several films and radio documentaries in Iran and Afghanistan, for Arte and France Culture. In 2012, Actes Sud published her collection of stories entitled ‘Nouvelles du réel’. ‘
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