• Documentary

The Last Ambassador

The Afghan ambassador in Vienna, Manizha Bakhtari, has found herself in a bizarre situation since the Taliban took power: she represents a country whose old government fled and whose new Taliban government has no international recognition. Under increasingly difficult financial and personal conditions, she decides to stand up to the Taliban and continue her courageous fight for the rights of Afghanistan’s women and girls as an ambassador, true to her motto “peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of justice”.

Data

Category
Documentary
Financing
Nationaler Film
Format
Digit, 90 Min
Release
15.08.2025
Distribution
FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions
7.760
Funding Film Institute
208.600 €
Share of total production costs
27 %
Funding ÖFI+
203.000 €
Share of total production costs
27 %
Television investment
100.000 €
Funding program
ÖFI, ÖFI+
Status
im Kino
Film location
Vienna, Tadjikistan, Canada
Shooting time
August 2023 - June 2024
Days of shooting
30
Completion
Winter 2024/2025
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Zukunftsfonds, Land Oberösterreich, Land Salzburg
Credits
Production
Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH
Producer
Arash T. Riahi, Peter Drössler, Sabine Gruber, Nathalie Halla
Director
Natalie Halla
Script-concept
Natalie Halla
DOP
Natalie Halla, Judith Benedikt AAC, Jordan Bryon
Editor
Birgit Förster
Sound engineer
Andreas Hamza, Zakia, Tong Zhang, Tjandra Warsosumarto, Sergey Martynyuk, Claus Benischke-Lang, Lara Zill, Sandor Gyurkovics, David Cook
Sound design
Atanas Tcholakov, Nils Kirchhoff
Protagonists
Manizha Bakthari
Music
Karwan Marouf
Green Film Consultant
Valentin Renoldner
German Title
Die Letzte Botschafterin
Television investment
ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)

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