Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili is associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and founding director of the Center for Governance and Markets. In other words, Afghanistan was ungovernable and would always be a lost cause for the outside world-a graveyard of empires. Why did the Afghan republic collapse so completely and so quickly, spurring tens of thousands of desperate people to run to the Kabul airport in hopes of escaping the Taliban’s harsh rule and potential retribution? Conventional wisdom says that the U.S.-backed republic fell because the country’s government and society were hopelessly corrupt, and its values were incompatible with democracy. Within hours, the insurgents sat comfortably at Ghani’s desk. With Ghani gone, the Taliban offensive, which had captured dozens of provincial capitals in the preceding weeks, easily entered Kabul. Just days earlier, he had sworn never to leave and said that he would die before abandoning his people. That afternoon, President Ashraf Ghani fled the capital city by helicopter to neighboring Uzbekistan. The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ended on 15 August 2021. After twenty years, Afghans were unwilling to fight for a distant government that did not treat them with dignity. Flooded with vast amounts of foreign aid, the post-2001 system fostered corruption. Instead of offering citizens an opportunity to oversee their government in a meaningful way, Kabul-centric institutions-holdovers from the country’s authoritarian past-undermined citizen trust in government. This article traces the state’s collapse to the highly centralized political institutions imposed after the 2001 U.S. The tournament, which partners with Tribeca Film Festival, was founded by Sony Pictures Classics executive Dylan Leiner, and past participants include teams from Warner Bros., NBC Universal, Time, the Tribeca Film Festival, and more.Conventional wisdom suggests that the Afghan republic fell because societal values were incompatible with democracy and the country was simply ungovernable. Garance Marillier plays Pichon in the biopic.īeyond these four films, on June 10 Tribeca will also host NYFEST/Tribeca Fundraising Soccer Tournament, now in its 12th year and helping raise money for organizations helping underserved youth in New York. Meanwhile, in the narrative feature world, Marinette, from director Virginie Verger, tells the story of French soccer star Marinette Pichon, who made history in 2002 when she signed for a professional team in Philadelphia (female players still aren’t recognized as professional in France), a move that meant she no longer had to hide her sexuality. The doc comes from director Matt Danzico. In War Games, two 12-year-old soccer captains and rivals in war-town Ukraine pick through shrapnel and rubble to play the game they love, gearing up for an overdue match against each other amidst blaring sirens and missile threats. The film follows the coach, the players and their families as they prepare to be the guard of honor at a match in the English Premier League. Other documentaries include Mighty Penguins, from directors Louis Myles and Ahmed Twaij and focused on the Brentford Penguins, a team of young players who all have Down’s Syndrome. ![]() ![]() In the trailer, the women listen to the phone call they received telling them that they needed to leave Afghanistan immediately, giving them instructions on what to do.Īyenda is just one of several films from the world of soccer premiering in Tribeca this year. The film - from director Marie Margolius, who produced alongside Connor Schell, and with a list of exec producers that includes Trevor Noah and Rashida Jones - tells the true story of how members of the team carried out a daring escape from their homeland in 2021 after Kabul’s fall to the Taliban. ![]() The trailer for Ayenda, the upcoming documentary short from MSNBC Films and Time Studios about the Under-18 Afghan National Women’s Football Team, has been released a day before its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on Saturday, June 10.
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