Hollywoodgate

Documentaire
    Réalisé par Ibrahim Nash'at • Écrit par Ibrahim Nash'at, Shane Boris, Talal Derki
    Allemagne, États-Unis • 2023 • 92 minutes • Couleur
  • N° ISAN :
    non renseigné
Résumé

Le lendemain du retrait des États-Unis d'Afghanistan, les talibans occupent immédiatement le complexe d'Hollywood Gate, qui serait une ancienne base de la CIA à Kaboul. Ils trouvent des avions, des armes et des équipements militaires de grande valeur. Déconcerté par la technologie, Malawi Mansour, le nouveau commandant de l'armée de l'air, ordonne à ses soldats d'inventorier et de réparer tout ce qu'ils peuvent. En l'espace d'un an, le film expose la transformation d'une milice fondamentaliste en un régime militaire.

The day after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban immediately move to occupy the Hollywood Gate complex, claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul. The Taliban find what the most technologically advanced military in history left behind: aircrafts, weapons, and valuable military equipment. Baffled by the technology, Malawi Mansour, the newly assigned Air Force commander, orders his soldiers to inventory and repair everything they can. Mukhtar, motivated to one day conquer the world, arrives at Hollywood Gate aiming to build a high-ranking military career.
While Malawi Mansour and Mukhtar are focused on maximizing their own personal objectives, their comrades continue to repair the weapons left behind at Hollywood Gate. AK-47s that were once used by the US and NATO are now in the hands of the Taliban; helicopters and fighter jets that were thought to be destroyed now lethally bomb the opposition, creating untold collateral damage in the process; and the use of international documentarians for the purposes of propaganda is now underway.
Over the course of one year, the film exposes the transformation of a fundamentalist militia into a military regime.

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