The Afghan Alphabet
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Directed by | Mohsen Makhmalbaf |
Music by | Mohammad Reza Darvishi |
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Country | Iran |
The Afghan Alphabet (Persian: الفبای افغان, Alefbay-e afghan) is a 2002 documentary by Mohsen Makhmalbaf showing the life of children in the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by the Taliban regime.[1]
Importance[]
In 2002 about 3 million Afghan refugees were living in Iran. From those about 700,000 were Afghan children who were not allowed to go to Iranian schools because of their illegal status in Iran.[2] After this movie was made, this subject became controversial and finally the Islamic Consultative Assembly passed a bill to allow Afghani children to go to school and it resulted in 500,000 kids getting education.
Awards & Festival Screenings[]
- Best Film Award from , (Germany) 2002[2]
- Fajr International Film Festival, Iran 2002
- Gotteburg 2003
- Rio 2003
- Busan International Film Festival 2003
- Hong Kong 2003
- Greece 6 March 2002 (Thessaloniki Documentary Festival)
- USA 6 April 2002 ()
- USA 2 June 2002 (Seattle International Film Festival)
- Canada 1 September 2002 (Montréal Film Festival)
- Japan 7 September 2002 (Tokyo)
- USA 4 October 2002 (Chicago International Film Festival)
- South Korea 18 November 2002 (Pusan International Film Festival)
- Singapore 3 May 2003 (Singapore International Film Festival)
- Hungary 4 October 2006 (TV premiere)
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-07-28. Retrieved 2013-06-29.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b "BBC فارسی - فرهنگ و هنر - الفبای افغان در برنامه آپارات". BBC Online (in Persian). Retrieved 30 June 2013.
External links[]
Categories:
- 2002 films
- Iranian documentary films
- Films directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Iranian films
- Documentary films about children
- Documentary films about Afghanistan
- Iranian film stubs
- Biographical documentary film stubs