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Kandahar (2001) | User Rating
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Original title: Safar e Ghandehar
Release Date
• USA: Dec 14, 2001
• UK: 15 Aug 2001
DVD Release Date
• R1: May 13, 2003
• R2: 26 Aug 2002
Official Website:
Kandahar Website
Running Time
1 hour, 25 minutes
Country Iran, France
Studio Bac Films, Makhmalbaf Productions
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Safar e Ghandehar
• The Sun Behind the Moon
• Safar e Gandehar
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Genre: Drama, True Story, On The Road, Experimental, Thieves, Suspense, Disturbing, Doctor
Plot: Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf presents this partially fictionalized documentary that illustrates the suffering of Afghan women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in the year 2000. The quiet, stark, powerful film follows an Afghan native, Nafas (the stunningly beautiful Noulifar Pazira), who left Afghanistan years back and got a journalism degree in Canada, upon which she built a career reporting the plight of women in oppressive nations. When she receives a letter from her sister, who is still in Afghanistan and who has decided that she will kill herself on the night of the next eclipse, Nafas decides to sneak back inside the border to rescue her. Traveling in a Red Cross helicopter to Pakistan, where she is lead on a treacherous all-night trek across an icy river and over deadly mountains, Nafas finally crosses over the border. But from there she must get to Kandahar, with only three days left before the eclipse. As a woman in Afghanistan she cannot speak out loud, travel without a husband, or show her face, elements which make her journey nearly impossible. Disguised in a heavy head-to-toe burka (the mandatory dress for women), she begins a Kafkaesque journey across the barren land, encountering obstacles both threatening and mesmerizing along the way.
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