Tell Spring Not To Come This Year
Movie · Documentary

Tell Spring Not to Come This Year follows one unit of the Afghan National Army (ANA) over the course of their first year of fighting in Helmand without NATO support to finally tell the story of the war from their perspective. The only feature documentary filmed entirely embedded with the ANA, it is an intimate and humanist film, told from a largely unheard and misrepresented perspective, that gives viewers a unique perspective on the legacy of NATO’s war, and the future of the country. Without a foreign soldier in sight, and no narrative but their own, this is the war in Afghanistan, through the eyes of the Afghans who live it.

2015 · 1h 23m
  • 89%
Starring Captain Jalaluddin, Private Sunnatullah
Director Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy

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Cast & Crew

  • C‌J
    Captain Jalaluddin
    Self
  • P‌S
    Private Sunnatullah
    Self
  • S‌T
    Saeed Taji Farouky
    Director
  • M‌M
    Michael McEvoy
    Director
  • S‌T
    Saeed Taji Farouky
    Producer
  • M‌M
    Michael McEvoy
    Producer
  • E‌C
    Elizabeth C Jones
    Producer
  • S‌B
    Scott Brown
    Producer
  • R‌E
    Robert Elliott
    Producer
  • Nick Quested
    Producer
  • D‌K
    David Kennedy
    Producer

About

Tell Spring Not To Come This Year

Documentary

Tell Spring Not to Come This Year follows one unit of the Afghan National Army (ANA) over the course of their first year of fighting in Helmand without NATO support to finally tell the story of the war from their perspective. The only feature documentary filmed entirely embedded with the ANA, it is an intimate and humanist film, told from a largely unheard and misrepresented perspective, that gives viewers a unique perspective on the legacy of NATO’s war, and the future of the country. Without a foreign soldier in sight, and no narrative but their own, this is the war in Afghanistan, through the eyes of the Afghans who live it.

89%

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Reviews 9
Fresh 8
Rotten 1

Information

Studio
Soda Pictures
Released
2015
Run Time
1 hr 23 min
Rated
Unrated
Regions of Origin
United Kingdom, Afghanistan
© 2015 Soda Pictures

Languages

Original Audio
, Dari, Urdu
Audio

Dari (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩)

Subtitles

English (Always On)

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  • Ghana
  • Guinea-Bissau
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