Kandahar

Kandahar

  • Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • Countries of origin: Iran, France
  • Language: Persian, English, Pashtu, Polish
  • Release date: February 1, 2002
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: The Sun Behind the Moon
  • "Safar e Ghandehar" is a French drama film released on May 11, 2001, directed by Mawson Markmarbaff and starring Nelofer Pazira .
    The film tells the story of a young journalist named Nafasi who escaped from Afghanistan with his family and returned to Afghanistan to save his sister in Safar e Ghandehar   .

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    Details

    • Release date February 1, 2002
    • Filming locations Afghanistan Border, Iran
    • Production companies Bac Films, Makhmalbaf Productions, StudioCanal

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,418,314

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $22,866

    Gross worldwide

    $8,914,751

    Movie reviews

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    • By Newell 2022-02-22 08:02:36

      Cruel hell

      This film completely broke through my perception of film. In addition to using documentary techniques to shoot a true feature film, it also has too much to share.

      Regarding foreign movies, one of the most common words we say is "shows the exotic atmosphere of the region..." But in the face of such a movie depicting Afghanistan, such a sentence seems too weak. It doesn’t mean anything to show the status quo of Kandahar to the world. We can read from Abbaschiarostami’s lens that he...

    • By Armani 2022-02-22 08:02:36

      "Kandahar"-Will this country have a good future?

      "Kandahar" is a work written and directed by Mawson Markmarbuff. Friends who are familiar with Iranian movies should know what Mawson means to Iranian movies. His works are full of thinking about religion, war, survival, and questioning the value of life. Even though the role of movies in changing the world, changing traditions, and changing culture is limited, Mawson still uses this tool to shout out his ideas to the world.

      Before commenting on this work, let's take a look at...

    • By Edd 2022-02-22 08:02:36

      Kandehar

      Regarding the hope that
      people cannot count how many bright moons there are on her roof,
      nor can they count the thousand brilliant suns behind its walls.
      It is natural for me to think of Mariam after watching the movie. Anyway, there are only a few popular works about Afghanistan. But in the only ones I have seen, the last mention is hope. So even if you can only walk barefoot in the desert, it is to attend the wedding; even if you wear lipstick on the back of the bukka, you have...

    • By Wendy 2022-02-22 08:02:36

      absurd

      At the beginning of the movie, my eyes drifted away from the heroine's exquisite hijab.
          
          Long yellow sand, skeletons, stumped legs, masked women...Hunger, famine, disease, refugees, children, weapons...
           All the content in the lens is revealed in the heroine's seemingly clear but illusory journey.
          
          Aren’t we longing for exoticism? At the beginning of the film, I seemed to be struck by this freshness, but as the plot progressed, my heart only grew...

    • By Retha 2022-02-22 08:02:36

      Filming is to breathe/record the spectacle of film in style <Dai Jinhua>

      1. His films have always surpassed movies, overflowing the theater, and consciously joined the social struggle, joined the social action, and joined the demand for social change. His camera faces the suffering directly, and this suffering is not just a regional suffering, but the suffering of human beings and the suffering of the modern world that are both prosperous and damaged.

      2. The choice of this film is certainly to share with you the wizards of...

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    • By Alana 2023-09-23 13:28:35

      @2019-10-06...

    • By Priscilla 2023-09-17 22:59:20

      Watched in high...

    • By Watson 2023-09-01 11:19:48

      Documentary style. The story is to go to Kandahar to find his sister. And the plot is really about those experiences along the way. Airdrop prosthetics are awesome. The subtitles of the sunshine version of the heart are...

    • By Anthony 2023-07-30 23:00:15

      The way the documentary was filmed, the suffocating and brutal scenes a woman had to face on her way to save her...

    • By Grayson 2023-07-20 23:01:39

      This narrative structure blows half of the road movie documentary. The father is still slightly better than the...

    Creative background

    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...
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    "Safar e Ghandehar" is a film between a feature film and a documentary. It faithfully reflects the sufferings and national disasters of Afghanistan, such as hunger, poverty, and death. The scenes in the film are beautifully shot, but inside are bursts of suffocating breaths of women. Under the various pains and despair presented in the film, it is Makmarbaff's heavy thinking about the fate of the nation and the ultimate concern for...
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