Oscar-Nominated Director James Longley Talks His Afghanistan Documentary ‘Mohabat’ and Why His Next Film Will Center on the Rohingya Genocide (EXCLUSIVE)

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(EXCLUSIVE) 2 days ago Double Oscar Winner Barbara Kopple Talks ‘Union Town’ and People Who Fight for ‘Dignity and Fairness’: ‘They Are My Heroes’ 2 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments Double Oscar nominee James Longley , who won the top award at Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival on Saturday with “ Mohabat ,” will focus next on the Rohingya genocide. Longley – who was Oscar nominated for “Iraq in Fragments” and “Sari’s Mother” – tells Variety at the Czech event, “I’ve already filmed act one of this project, working with Diane Weyermann [ who died in 2021 ] at Participant Media, when they were still around [the company was shut down in 2024].

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Next year marks the 10th anniversary of the 2017 genocide.” Related Stories Out With the New, in With the Old?: How the Grammys Should Recognize Revived Hits Record and Song of the Year Grammy Predictions: With Ella Langley, Taylor Swift, the Two Olivias and Other Frontrunners in the Race, Expect a Nail-Biter He adds, “[It’s] a genocide that’s formally recognized as such by the United States, the EU and the British government, yet, surprisingly, no documentary feature has been produced on this subject. I’m uniquely prepared to make that film.” Longley doesn’t mind being an outsider.

His latest, “Mohabat,” is set in Afghanistan. “I’m not attempting to become Afghan.

I’m trying to help non-Afghans understand Afghanistan better. After fighting a war in their country for 20 years, this seems like the least we can do,” he says.

He arrived “with a camera in my hand instead of a gun” and was treated as a guest, not an enemy. “I went to their country with the sincere goal of telling their stories, so I was accepted and afforded patience.

“I cannot describe what an honor it has been for me to live and work alongside the Afghan people, who are brave and pure of heart in a way most Americans could take a good lesson from.” His protagonist, 12-year-old Mohabat, tries to hold his family together under Taliban rule after a U.S. drone kills his father while he’s out hunting.

“This happened during the first Trump administration, when Mike Pompeo was in charge of the drone program,” says Longley. “During the 20-year war, such events were common and untold numbers of civilians were killed and forgotten far from the foreign journalists in Kabul.

Mohabat did not want his father to be forgotten, and so he stuck with us patiently throughout two years of filming.” During location scouting, the team visited orphanages filled with children who had lost their parents in the war. “The sons of Afghan policemen martyred in Taliban suicide bombings share their bread with the sons of martyred Taliban fighters.

Many of them wanted to tell their stories. That was never an issue,” he says.

“Mohabat believed that we would do justice to the memory of his father, a poor man with a wife and seven children, who worked as a tea seller in a large market on the edge of Kabul.” He adds: “Elham, one of Mohabat’s friends, told us specifica

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