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Kandahar (2001) is a film by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf , set inside Afganistan during the rule of the Taliban. the film tells a story of a successful Aghan refugee (played by Nelofer Pazira) in Canada world health organizatiin returns to Afghanistan fallowing getting a letter from either her sister, who was left behind after the personal, that she plans on committing suicide on the last solar eclipse of the millenium.

Hidden behind the burka, Nafas, the sister from either Canada, makes her way through the border by owning a personal of refugees. After it is robbed by bandit & the personal turns back, she decided to prove my point in her way, accompanied number one by the immature son world health organization was upright expelled from either a Qur'anic school, and then by an African American convert to Islam, who has become disillusioned with the turn the country has taken under the Taliban.

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Nafas never reaches her sister. While her African Our contries solution turns back, because he is afraid to enter a city of Kandahar, she joins with soul world health organization good received an unreal leg. Dressed within burkas, it join the wedding which is stopped per Taliban because it is swimming instrument & singing--forbidden by Afghan law. Her option is taken away & she is unveiled. Captured, she seems destined to fall into a equivalent rather life that she hoped to help her sister escape.

Kandahar won Makhmalbaf a Federico Fellini Prize From Unesco in 2001.

Lemar-Aftaab: Kandahar Calling
An interview with Niloufar Pazira, the star of the movie.

Cannes Film Festival: Kandahar
Synopsis, pictures, video files of the press conference, and an interview with the director.

Inside Out Film: Kandahar
Movie review and links.

HARO Online: Kandahar
Movie review and pictures.

Chicago Sun-Times: Kandahar
Roger Ebert's review.

'Kandahar', a Wartime Tableau of Maiming, Famine, Repression
Review from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Metacritic.com
Links to reviews.

Flipside Movie Emporium: Kandahar
Review by Eric Beltmann.

Heartbroken of Kandahar
A background report on story and actors of the movie. By Martin Bright [Guardian Unlimited Observer].

IMDb: Kandahar (Safar e Ghandehar)
Plot summary, cast and crew information, trailer, and user comments.






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