Kandahar

Have you seen this film?

While not a documentary, It is an attempt by director Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Afghan-Canadian journalist Nalofer Pazira (A Bed of Red Flowers) to tell the world about the plight of Afghanistan. In November 2000 the film crew set up in a refugee town on the Iranian border and enlisted the people of the town, who didn't know the word film or the concept of film, to be the actors and actresses, together with Pazira, untrained also, in a film about Pazira's search for her childhood friend Dyana, left behind when civilization in Kabul was benighted under the Taliban.

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