\u00bbNymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature and are usually depicted as beautiful, young, nubile maidens who love to dance and sing and have an amorous freedom. Kalash women, in to my opinion, have all these elements.\u00ab
\n\u2013 Anneta Papathanassiou<\/p>\n
The last four thousand members of the ancient Kalash tribe live reclusively in the mountains of Hindu Kush on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Although this is the middle of the Islamic world, they have never converted to Islam but preserved their traditional polytheistic religion: they believe in a plethora of gods including nymphs and fairies. Kalash women are strong and lovable and they enjoy many freedoms. Shamim, for example, is the first of their women to go to university. She dreams of working with Athanassios Lerounis, the president of Greek Volunteers<\/em> (a NGO which organizes development and education projects in the region) and of helping her people. But when Lerounis is kidnapped by the Taliban, the Kalash are deeply concerned. Anneta Papathanassiou creates in her The Nymphs of Hindu Kush<\/strong>, the portrait of a highly engaging people. But due to the tense security situation, and related bans on entering the country, she had to coordinate some of the directorial work from Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20988,"template":"","movie_year":[304],"movie_genre":[85],"movie_cat":[361],"festival":[628],"class_list":["post-18880","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-304","movie_genre-documentary-en","movie_cat-panorama-en-2012","festival-2012-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n