Tell Spring Not to Come This Year follows one unit of the Afghan National Army over the course of their first year of deployment in Helmand without NATO support. It is an intimate film about the human side of combat, told from a largely unheard and misrepresented perspective, that explores the deep personal motivations, desires and struggles of a band of fighting men on the frontline. Without a NATO soldier in sight, and no narrative but their own, this is the war in Afghanistan, through the eyes of the Afghans who live it.
Manual labourers during the day, rock musicians during the night, Akbar, Hakim, Mohammad and Soraya dream of performing their first rock concert in Afghanistan. They all come from Afghan refugee parents who fled to Iran in early 80s. Born and raised in Iran, their dream of rock music make them em...