Three Songs for Benazir

Three Songs for Benazir (2021) is an Afghan documentary short by directors Elizabeth and Gulistan Mirzaei — watch it online on iFILM. Newly married Shaista lives in a displacement camp in Kabul, pulled between two things he wants: a life with Benazir and a place in the Afghan National Army, a step no one from his tribe has taken before.

Twenty-two minutes, handheld, no narration. The film was an Oscar nominee at the 94th Academy Awards, and it earns that attention — not through spectacle but through one man's face as he tries to figure out which future he can actually build. Stream Three Songs for Benazir (2021) on iFILM.