10:35 Cinema: 13 Days, 13 Nights & Stories from Afghanistan

A screen­ing of the French-Bel­gian film 13 Days, 13 Nights, which depicts the events that took place on August 15, 2021, dur­ing the chaot­ic evac­u­a­tion of allied forces and civil­ian work­ers from Kab­ul. Before the screen­ing, there will be a dis­cus­sion with peo­ple whose lives are for­ev­er con­nect­ed to Afghanistan. They either served and fought in the coun­try, worked there, or were direct­ly involved in the evacuation.

Guests: 
Michal Kadlec — a for­mer mem­ber of the 601^st Spe­cial Forces Group, a vet­er­an of four mis­sions in Afghanistan. 
Kristý­na Tmejová — a for­mer media expert for PRT Log­ar, where she was respon­si­ble for coop­er­a­tion with local media and aware­ness cam­paigns, and also focused on the rights of local women and girls.

13 Days, 13 Nights
Kab­ul, August 15, 2021. Amer­i­can forces are with­draw­ing from Afghanistan, and the Tal­iban attacks the cap­i­tal. They seize it, plung­ing all of Kab­ul into com­plete chaos. Thou­sands of ter­ri­fied Afghans rush to the last safe haven, the French embassy, where com­man­der Mohamed Bida and his elite team are secur­ing the premis­es. Bida, along with hun­dreds of civil­ians, becomes trapped inside the com­pound. In a final, des­per­ate effort, he must nego­ti­ate with the Tal­iban to orga­nize an evac­u­a­tion con­voy, with the help of French-Afghan human­i­tar­i­an work­er Eva. A race against time begins — with­in days, it will be too late to escape. They must reach the air­port and flee the hell descend­ing on Kab­ul. 
The film 13 Days, 13 Nights is based on the incred­i­ble yet true sto­ry that Mohamed Bida pub­lished in his book of the same name.