KANDAHAR
(aka SUN BEHIND THE MOON)
(SAFAR E GHANDEHAR)
2001, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran, 81 min.
With Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai
When KANDAHAR was released almost a decade ago, no one would have guessed that this road movie set against Afghanistan’s agony would still seem in equal parts current and timeless. The veiled women, the scores of amputees, the unschooled girls, and the little boys reciting the Koran with automatic weapons in their laps are images that remain suspended in the forefront of world politics. Makhmalbaf, a great visual poet of the absurd, sets Canadian journalist Nafas (Pazira) on a trek through the dangerous desert wasteland in a search for her sister that will become a surreal journey into the unimaginable. In Persian, English, Pashtu, and Polish with English subtitles. 35mm. (BS)
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