Afghanistan 2000

Jung means war in the Dari language.

It is a word laden with meaning for the Afghan people, abandoned and forgotten by the international community.

In a country devastated by more than twenty years of conflicts, war has shaped day-to-day living, becoming a brutal normality, even mistaken for the essence of life itself.

Jung is a narrative documentary which follows the human and professional adventure of its protagonists.

A war surgeon has an important project: To set up an emergency hospital for civilian war victims.

He is accompanied in the search for an adequate location by an old war correspondent who has been reporting from Afghanistan ever since the Soviet invasion.

The first act in the tale is the survey mission carried out in February 1999.

The city of Charikar, 10 Km from the front North of Kabul, is chosen as the designated site for the construction of the hospital.

But in July 1999 a sudden Taliban attack on the plane of Charikar forces the Mujaheddin army and the civil population to a desperate escape.

The humanitarian intervention has to be anticipated, and an emergency site is found in the village of Anobah, in the Panshir Valley.

The third and final act of the account, shot in the Winter and Spring of year 2000, bears witness to the life of the hospital with its daily tragedies, in the hope of a possible alternative to the madness of war.