"The Harder Life Was for Us, the Stronger the Images Were:" Director Hassan Fazili on the Perils of His Flight-from-the Taliban Doc, Midnight Traveler

As headlines blare possible peace talks between the U.S. and the Taliban, and with its intersection of politics and filmmaking, Hassan Fazili’s Midnight Traveler, which premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival in World Documentary Competition, is bound to be one of the festival circuit’s most discussed pictures this year. (It travels next month to the Berlin Film Festival.) Midnight Traveler charts the Fazili family's escape from the Taliban after Fazili became the group’s target ...