It took four years for filmmakers Elizabeth and Gulistan Mirzaei to complete Three Songs for Benazir, now a Netflix documentary shortlisted for this year’s Academy Awards. Presented in 2021, two months before the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, the short-form documentary discusses the expanse of tenderness, joy and purpose against the backdrop of war and broken lives, following a young man’s indecision on whether to join the Afghan National Army or attend to family responsibilities. “You may feel you have seen these faces before, this garb, this landscape, this dust framed usually in the languag…