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The Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi.html 84 min
Tribeca Film Festival
Showtimes:
Sat Apr 25, 6:30pm AMC Village VII Theatre 3rd Ave/11th St.
Sat Apr 26, 1pm School of Visual Arts Theatre 333 W. 23rd (Followed by panel including Christian and Dreadful George Packard)
Tue Apr 28, 1:45pm AMC Village VII Theatre 3rd Ave/11th St.
Sat May 2, 9:15pm AMC Village VII Theatre 3rd Ave/11th St.
Twenty-four-year-old Ajmal Naqshbandi is a "fixer," someone hired by foreign journalists to facilitate the gathering of news stories. In 2007 he was captured with an Italian journalist by the Taliban in Afghanistan. With the aid of his government and high levels of publicity, the Italian was spared, but the Afghan wan't so lucky. After the dust of his murder settles, Ajmal's friends, family, and his fellow abductee try to make sense of the harsh fate that befell him in a harrowing and insightful documentary.
Six months before his abduction, the movie shows Ajmal amiably shepherding Parenti, working on assignment for The Nation, from one dangerous interview with machine-gun-toting militants to the next. The chronicles of this assignment are interrupted by brutal, Taliban-shot images from the squall that was to come-Ajmal and journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo, mistaken for spies, bound and battered, captives at the mercy of a rogue army.