Just over a week after the Trump administration froze all immigration requests related to Afghan nationals in the wake of the Washington, D.C., National Guard shooting that killed one service member, a different portrayal of Afghans flickered across a screen in Manhattan.

A couple of hundred people gathered on Friday inside Cooper Union’s Great Hall, a room steeped in American civic memory that once hosted speeches by Abraham Lincoln and suffragettes, to watch Champions of the Golden Valley , shot and directed by American filmmaker Ben Sturgulewski, and produced by Katie Stjernholm and Baktash Ahadi.

The film , which tracks the Bamyan ski community before and after the Taliban takeover, provides a portrait of resilience and camaraderie in the Afghan mountains.

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