Check point

  • Directed by Alizadeh Hamed
  • Afghanistan, 2011
  • Workshops in Afghanistan - Kabul
  • Urban life, Work
  • Shooting place : Kaboul
  • Duration : 28 min
  • Audio : PRD
  • Subtitles : FR

Synopsis

At one of the many checkpoints in the city, policemen take turns, exposed to all dangers, far from their families, sheltered in containers where they share their meagre meals, and try to steal a few hours sleep.

Rewards, festivals and diffusions

Visions du Réel

  • Place : Nyon (Switzerland)
  • Date : 2012

Festival Indo Persan

  • Place : Marseille (France)
  • Date : 2012

Rencontres du cinéma européen

  • Place : Vannes (France)
  • Date : 2012

Festival des 3 Continents

  • Place : Nantes (France)
  • Date : 2011

Autumn Human Rights Film Festival

  • Place : Kaboul (Afghanistan)
  • Date : 2011

Musée du Quai Branly

  • Place : Paris (France)

International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

  • Place : Prague (Czech Republic)
  • Date : 2013

MAMI Film Festival

  • Place : Mumbai (India)
  • Date : 2013

Festival of Southern Documentaries

  • Place : Katmandou (Nepal)
  • Date : 2013

Hamed Alizadeh

Director and producer

Born in 1981, Hamed Alizadeh studied film and theatre at the Kabul University of Art. Since 2002, he has been a trainer and manager of the Asman Theatre Group, directing Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", Bertolt Brecht's "Man for Man" and Islavomir Morzhwik's "On the Sea". He then worked as an editor and photojournalist for the JAMEAH Weekly in Kabul, then as a director and producer of a children's programme on Rah-e Farda TV before becoming director of the children's department on the same channel. Between 2009 and 2011, he took part in documentary filmmaking training courses at the ateliers Varan. Before 2009, he worked on several short fiction and documentary films as a scriptwriter, director and editor. His film ==Check Point== was selected for prestigious festivals such as Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland. He is now a producer and director mostly interested in social issues in Afghanistan.

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