Leena Alam

Actress

Arian loves kites but a changing Afghanistan stands in his way. When the Taliban take power and ban kite flying, he all but gives up on his passion. However, to give his daughter Seema a sense of childhood that he once had, Arian risks his life to find and fly kites. Premiered at Toronto International Festival (2017) and played 17 festivals around the world. Won three Leo Awards for Best Direction, Best Screenplay and Best Motion Picture.

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Black Kite (2017)

Leena Alam is an award winning Afghan film and Tv actress and a Human rights activist. She started her acting career in 1998 with films as In a Foreign Land, Loori and a few more made by the Afghan diaspora filmmakers in the US. She made her debut in Afghanistan in Barmak Akram's 2008 Kabuli Kid, and went on to do Soil and Coral, Ahwal e Darya, A Letter to the President and a few short films to help young rising film makers in Afghanistan. She is mostly known to have worked in subjects that speaks on Child Marriage, Gender Equality, Women's Right and Social Conflicts. Her notable work on these subjects are "Shereen" The struggle of a powerful woman, a taboo-smashing feminist TV drama, and "The Killing of Farkhunda" a re-enactment of the killing of a 27-year-old Afghan woman falsely accused of burning a copy of the Quran. Leena Alam, believes that art of Cinema can be a great tool to educate and bring changes in the society. Specially in the societies that are torn by war, poverty and illiteracy like Afghanistan.