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Kandahar (Safar e ghandehar)
Threat advisory: Guarded - General risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
Nafas (Niloufar Pazira) is a reporter who was born in Afghanistan, but fled with her family to Canada when she was a child. However, her sister wasn't so lucky; she lost her legs to a land mine while young, and when Nafas and her family left the country, her sister was accidentally left behind. Nafas receives a letter from her sister announcing that she's decided to commit suicide during the final eclipse before the dawn of the 21st century; desperate to spare her sister's life, Nafas makes haste to Afghanistan, where she joins a caravan of refugees who, for a variety of reasons, are returning to the war-torn nation. As Nafas searches for her sister, she soon gets a clear and disturbing portrait of the toll the Taliban regime has taken upon its people.
Theatrical propaganda posters
Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film Afghanistan Taliban drama women land mine family sister refugee war
Persons of interest
- Niloufar Pazira .... Nafas
- Hassan Tantai .... Tabib Sahid
- Sadou Teymouri .... Khak
- Hoyatala Hakimi .... Hayat
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf .... Screenwriter
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf .... Director
Cinematic intelligence sources
- Kandahar official movie sites:
- Awards and film festivals:
- Bayeux, France Film Festival 2002: Official selection
- Cannes Film Festival 2002: Ecumenical jury prize, Federico Fellini medal
- Cinemas du sud: Public prize
- Montréal World Film Festival 2002: Nouveau cinema nouveaux media: Best actress
- Moscow Film Festival 2002: Official selection
- Munich Film Festival 2002: Official selection
- National Board of Review, USA 2002: Freedom of expression
- New York's Colombia University
- São Paulo International Film Festival 2002
- Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2002
- Thessaloniki Film Festival 2002: FIPRESCI prize
- Toronto International Film Festival 2002: Official selection
- UNESCO honorary diploma for Kandahar actress
- Valladolid International Film Festival (Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid) 2002
- World Council of Churches: Ecumenical award
- NB: English, Farsi and Polish languages with English language subtitles
Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
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Security censorship classification
PG (Adult themes)
Surveillance time
85 minutes (1:25 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: Undated April 2002
DVD rental: 20 November 2002
VHS rental: 20 November 2002
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