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(War): In the Land of the Mujaheddin In this beautifully produced look at Afghanistan, a surgeon and a war correspondent decide to join forces and set up a hospital in a country that has had to cope with war for the last twenty years. After the Russians, the Taliban took society firmly into their grasp. "Houses and schools have been burnt down, sons killed on the battlefield and almost everybody is hungry," an Afghan woman explains from behind her veil, perforated only by a few air holes. "Women are beaten up in the street if they are wearing sandals that show part of their legs, so everyone is terrified of breaking the extremely strict rules of the Taliban," another woman explains. Meanwhile, tanks have conquered the mountains, and the rugged, stunning landscape is strewn with mines, which are stepped on every day by countless innocent victims. The new hospital struggles to help all of these war victims, but is struggling. The Italian surgeon gets discouraged at times, because he knows that every day brings the same tragic calamities. Related Web Sites: This
film is part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Kandahar
Shot on the border of Iran and Afghanistan, Kandahar is a politically urgent story of a young female journalist named Nafas who escaped Afghanistan with her family but must return and race against time in an attempt to rescue her sister. The sister, maimed by an exploded landmine and distraught over the constant persecution simply for being a woman, has written to Nafas vowing that she will commit suicide by the next solar eclipse. Nafas must disguise herself as an Afghan wife by wearing the traditional head-to-toe covering of the burka in order to find her sister in the Taliban-controlled city of Kandahar. The film is inspired by the real-life experience of actress Niloufar Pazira, who plays Nafas. In 1989, she fled her homeland of Afghanistan and later received a similar letter not from a sister, but from a long-time friend who wanted to end her life. Related Sites: For locations and playdates link to the movie‚s official web site www.kandaharthemovie.com/ No
Man‚s Land Synopsis (from Yahoo!Movies) Ciki and Nino, a Bosnian and a Serb, are soldiers stranded in a trench between enemy lines during the Bosnian war. They have no one to trust, no way to escape without getting shot and a fellow soldier is lying on the trench floor with a spring-loaded bomb [a landmine] set to explode beneath him if he moves. With the two men stuck in a bizarre predicament, a frustrated UN sergeant tries to help, despite orders to remain at his post. When a journalist waylays the sergeant while pushing for an exclusive scoop, she affects the unfolding of events and turns a news story into an international circus. With the world's press waiting for an outcome, no one willing to take action (lest they accept responsibility) and a soldier still stuck with a bomb beneath him, Ciki and Nino try to keep their humanity amidst the insanity of war. Related Web Sites: Official
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