In 2003, film director Siddiq Barmak shot the first highly-acclaimed Afghan feature film "Osama", based on the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan. He just completed shooting on a new film project, entitled "Opium War". Martin Gerner spoke with him in Kabul
In Afghanistan, the world's main producer of opium, poppy cultivation was down for the first time since 2001. However, a UN report warned that it could go up again this year. Ratbil Shamel reports