Kandahar Creative background
2022-02-22 08:02
At a certain moment, Mawson Markemalbaf watched a 12-year-old girl who was the same age as his daughter died of hunger in his arms. From that day on, he determined to bring this tragedy to the screen. In the stage of collecting material, Mawson Makmarbhav did a lot of investigations. The clues throughout the film came from the adaptation of the heroine’s real experience: she needed to set out to find a friend who planned to commit suicide because she couldn’t bear the life in front of her. She found Makmarbaff and suggested that he go with him, and filmed the process. Makmarbaff did not go with her at the time, but later dived into the territory of Afghanistan on his own to conduct a field investigation, did a lot of data collection, and started to create the film when the time was right
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