KANDAHAR
synopsis
Nafas is a young Afghan journalist who has taken refuge in Canada. She receives a desperate letter from her little sister, who has stayed behind in Afghanistan and has decided to end her life before the imminently approaching eclipse of the sun. Nafas fled her country during the Taliban civil war. She decides to go and help her sister in Kandahar and attempts to cross the Iran-Afghanistan border...
international title: | KANDAHAR |
original title: | SAFAR E GHANDEHAR |
country: | France, Iran |
sales agent: | Goodfellas |
year: | 2001 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Mohsen Makhmalbaf |
film run: | 85' |
release date: | IT 12/10/2001, FR 24/10/2001, CH 05/11/2001, BE 07/11/2001, UK 16/11/2001, GR 23/11/2001, ES 23/11/2001, CZ 13/12/2001, NL 20/12/2001, DE 03/01/2002, PL 25/01/2002, SE 01/02/2002, DK 18/01/2002 |
screenplay: | Mohsen Makhmalbaf |
cast: | Niloufar Pazira, Hassan Tantaï, Sadou Teymouri, Hayatalah Hakimi |
cinematography by: | Ebrahim Ghafouri |
art director: | Akbar Meshkini |
music: | Mohamad Reza Darvishi |
producer: | Mohsen Makhmalbaf |
production: | BAC Films, Makhmalbaf Film House (IR) |
distributor: | Mars Films Distribution, Bim Distribuzione (IT), Frenetic Films (CH), ICA Projects (UK), Golem Distribucion (ES), Artcam (CZ), A-Film Distribution (NL), Movienet (DE), SF Video (SE), Gloria (DK), Arthaus (NO) |