Director : Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
Country : Iran
Language : Farsi & English
Catalog Number : NYD85303
Suggested Retail Price : $ 29.95
Running Time : 85 mins.
Year : 2001

KANDAHAR, a 2001 Cannes Film Festival winner, is a compelling combination of vivid imagery, adventure and social criticism, inspired by the true story of a woman’s attempt to enter Afghanistan.

Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with grief over being injured by a landmine and the Taliban’s systemic oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.

Clothed in the traditional head-to-toe burka, and posing as a subservient wife, Nafas’ odyssey takes her across a dramatic desert landscape, where she encounters bandits, corpse-robbers, marooned exiles, overwhelmed Red Cross worker, hordes of land-mine victims, and finally a wedding procession that brings her within eyeshot of Kandahar.