[2][3] It was selected as part of the first Afghan art exhibit show in the British Museum opened by president Hamid Karzai.

[4] The film is divided into 16 days in which the director discusses a different issue facing the Afghan people.

Day 2: He visits the Blue Mosque of Mazar-e Sharif and discusses the situation with the caretakers, guards, and the ulemas who are there.

Day 3: Interview with the colonel of the Afghan National Army about the status of women in Afghanistan.

Day 9:Interview with the founder of Afghan Human Rights Committee about the involvement of United States and western powers in Afghanistan and terrorism.

Day 13: Hajher faces death for a moment when he thinks that his village barber is going to cut his neck.

The film is directed by Anwar Hajher, an Afghan-American anthropologist and current Afghan cultural advisor and professor in Georgia.

The score is composed by Ahmad Shah Hassan and Larry Porter with additional music by Hariprasad Chaurasia.

The film also includes interviewees with the Afghan people from bread sellers to fortune tellers to heroin users to doctors to Mullahs to UN officials and ordinary school children.

[8][9] 16 Days in Afghanistan has also been shown in many television stations, film festivals and non-profit events[5] around the world.

Some include the official study guide from Penguin Group for Khaled Hosseini's novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns.

[13][14][15] Afghan critics and scholars have hailed the film for being neutral to the political and tribal issues while other documentaries often take sides.

Wasef Bakhtari, renowned poet and historian has commented on the ability of the director to speak both Pashtu and Dari natively, while also communicating perfectly in English.