The Forbidden Reel

The Forbidden Reel
Film poster
Directed byAriel Nasr
Written byAriel Nasr
Produced byKatherine Baulu
Sergeo Kirby
Ariel Nasr
CinematographyPablo Alvarez-Mesa
Duraid Munajim
Edited byAnnie Jean
Music byOlivier Alary
Johannes Malfatti
Production
company
Release date
  • November 25, 2019 (2019-11-25) (IDFA)
Running time
119 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Forbidden Reel is a 2019 Canadian documentary film, directed by Ariel Nasr.[1] The film profiles the cinema of Afghanistan through a history of the Afghan Film Organization.[2]

The film premiered in 2019 at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.[3] It had its Canadian premiere at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[4] where it was named one of five winners of the festival's Rogers Audience Award, alongside the films The Walrus and the Whistleblower, 9/11 Kids, First We Eat and There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace.[5]

The film received two Prix Iris nominations at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021, for Best Documentary and Best Editing in a Documentary (Annie Jean).[6]