Kandahar
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Niloufar Pazira
Sadou Teymouri
Hassan Tantai
Hayatalah Hakimi
Syamak Alagheband
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Nafas, a journalist, had fled her homeland of Afghanistan during its civil war with the Taliban. She had managed to escape to Canada where she could live a peaceful existence. However, after receiving a suicidal letter from her sister, who has vowed to put an end to her miserable life before the eclipse, Nafas plots to re-enter her turbulent homeland. She seeks to come to the aid of her desperate sister, who had remained behind in the city of Kandahar, after being maimed by a Taliban-planted landmine. Unable to enter Afghanistan through legal channels, the stealthy journalist slips across the Iran-Afghanistan border in a party of refugees and attempts to cross Afghanistan to reach her sister. What Nafas discovers is a ravaged nation where crushing poverty and mullah-decreed oppression reigns supreme; but simultaneously, she witnesses glimpses of humanity and slivers of hope that unexpectedly rise from the ruins of a destroyed nation.
Director
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Crew
Syamak Alagheband
Hassan Amiri
Mohammad Reza Darvishi
Hashem Gerami
Ebrahim Ghafori
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
M Mirtahmasb
Kaveh Moinfar
Abbas Saghrisaz
Berhouz Shahamat
M R Sharifi
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Ecumenical Award for Best Film at the 2001 Cannes International Film Festival.
Released in United States Winter December 14, 2001
Expanded Release in United States January 11, 2002
Released in United States on Video May 6, 2003
Released in United States on Video May 13, 2003
Released in United States August 2001
Shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eyes of the World) August 12-26, 2001.
US officials claim that the man credited in the film as Hassan Tantai is actually David Belfield, prime suspect in the murder of former Iranian diplomat Ali Akbar Tabatabai.
Released in United States Winter December 14, 2001
Expanded Release in United States January 11, 2002
Released in United States on Video May 6, 2003
Released in United States on Video May 13, 2003
Released in United States August 2001 (Shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eyes of the World) August 12-26, 2001.)
