Tell Spring not to come this year (2015)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Saeed Tajik Farouki, Michael McEvoy
	Actors: -
	Country: GB, AFG
	Genre: Documentary
	Conditions of visioning: 14.02.2015, Cinestar 3, Berlinale2015, Tadjik/Dari/Pachtun version with English subtitles
Synopsis: Tell Spring Not to Come This Year follows one unit of the Afghan National Army (ANA) over the course of their first year of deployment in Helmand without NATO support. It is an intimate film about the human side of combat, told from a largely unheard and misrepresented perspective, that explores the deep personal motivations, desires and struggles of a band of fighting men on the front line. Without a NATO soldier in sight, and no narrative but their own, this is the war in Afghanistan, through the eyes of the Afghans who live it.
Review: When I have seen in the Berlinale programm that this movie would come, I decided to watch it. Finally! Finally a point of view that is supposed not to be biaised by the pretentious Occidental point of viewon this war against the Talibans.  Indeed, we see the multicultural army, having at least 4 languages in the small group we follow. So a linguist in the Q&A with Michael McEvoy after the movie. During the whole movie I was wondering whether this was a fake or a real documentary. Because the image was perfectly controlled and stable, because the image composition was always good. The difficulty I see is more economic than political. The movie does present a picture of the situation, without giving any solution.  It is incredible that the soldiers speak so freely and actually they do not tell much against anybody, they just express their feeling about their country, their love for their country and their anger and despair in front of the situation. McEvoy had been a soldier and studied Media in the UK afterwards. Therefore he knew already many of the people who were then more open to talk to him. Great job!
Rating: 7 /10