North American Premiere
Soirée d'ouverture

University Concordia
Alumni Auditorium • Henry F. Hall Building • 1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest
Thursday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Upon invitation and general admission $ 7

September 11, 2001. On top of the Afghan mountains, Vergos, a French journalist learns about the attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center by terrorists of Al-Qaeda. He remembers...
1984. Nikolaï, a young Soviet musician arrives in Afghanistan like thousands of other conscripts to fight a war that is not his. Absolutely terrified he finds himself in a world torn by violence and death. One day during an operation, he is captured by Commander Massoud’s Moudjaheddins. They carry him into the heart of the mountains where are hidden the Afghan resistance and Vergos, who came clandestinely into Afghanistan. Whereas some of them want him dead, others treat him with compassion. Bonds of complicity and friendship are gradually woven between the Soviet soldier, the French journalist and the Moudjaheddins...

Christophe de Ponfilly
Christophe de Ponfilly’s father was a Russian-French writer. Christophe de Ponfilly, writer, self-taught director, producer, journalist, directed more than forty documentary films. In July 1981, he clandestinely enters Afghanistan to witness and report on the Afghan people’s resistance to the Soviet occupation. He then becomes Commander Massoud’s friend. From then on his various works never stop telling the Afghan drama through the men and women caught inside it. In 1998, he directed the documentary Massoud, l’Afghan, which won several awards in international festivals. He died in 2006, at the age of 55, not long after L’Étoile du soldat, his first feature film inspired from his own story.