Bahram Baryal
Directing
Biography
Bahram Baryal, born on July 28, 1951, in the Kingdom of Afghanistan, Karte Char, Kabul, is an Afghan film producer, writer, and director. Baryal has produced and directed more than 55 feature and television films in Kabul, including some of his most notable works such as Mirk, Janan, and Dream or Reality. Throughout his artistic career, he has been recognized and honored by various governmental, cultural, private, and international institutions for his significant contribution to Afghan cinema. Beyond filmmaking, Bahram Baryal is also active in painting, playwriting, photography, and poetry, making him a multidisciplinary artist whose creative vision extends across multiple forms of art. He began his career working in Afghan Film, serving as a sound engineer, director, and screenwriter, and later became the head of Tolo Studio at the ANCO Institute in 1993. He has created numerous documentaries and educational dramas addressing social and cultural issues, and has served as the Secretary of the Afghan Cinematographers’ Union.
Known For
Little Statue" directed by Bahram Baryal, is a crime drama film. The story revolves around a gang of criminals who are hired for a mission to steal a golden statue recently discovered in Afghanistan. When their initial plan fails, they resort to kidnapping the daughter of the archaeologist who found the statue. Their goal is to force him to hand over the statue to them instead of the government. But things don’t go as planned…
Little Statue
A man who advises his son about the highs and lows of life — its beauty and ugliness, desires and dreams, shame and honor, lies and truth, negligence and awareness, temptation and virtue — eventually finds himself entangled in the very things he warned against.
Dream or Reality
Janan, a simple and naive young man with short-term memory loss, is sent out of his home to buy salt. But along the way, he becomes caught in unexpected conflicts with people from nearby villages, turning a simple task into a chaotic journey
Janaan
Majedi Lala, worried about his own and his son's bachelorhood, goes to Mama Shirin's home to meet his four very different daughters. Now the family must decide: which bride is the right choice?
Behind The Door
A gullible man, once manipulated, rises with clarity and vengeance, determined to dismantle the liars who used him
Meerk
Two men travel a shared road. One acts with honesty and gratitude, the other with deceit and disgrace. Though their destination is identical, their hearts are not. When the journey reaches its final turn, only the truth will decide who remains, and who is undone