About

Shamshad Noori

I’m Shamshad Noori — a documentary filmmaker and photographer from Bamyan, Afghanistan. I trained as an architect, and I still see the world that way: in structures, patterns, and details.

But what I document can’t be rebuilt — the crafts, rituals, songs, and everyday lives that carry a culture.

Every picture tells a story. Let me help you tell yours.
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Films online
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Institutional partners
1
International exhibition
Portrait of Shamshad Noori
Bamyan, Afghanistan
Experience
Training
Architecture
The eye for structure, pattern, and detail
Ongoing
Turquoise Mountain
Cultural heritage films & research
Fieldwork
UNESCO
Documentation of Bamyan’s old houses
2025
British Council
Commissioned film — Winter in Murad Khane
2025
Alwaleed Philanthropies
Commissioned film — Woven in Bamiyan
Exhibition
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International group exhibition — details to confirm
Working across Afghanistan and beyond
Let’s tell your story.