"Kandahar" film screening & discussion as part of series of Movies on Afghanistan at Dayar-i-Mir Taqi Mir, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar > 2:30pm-5pm on 6th November 2013

Time : 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Tagore Conference Room, Dayar-i-Mir Taqi Mir, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025
Venue Info : www.jmi.nic.in | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Okhla(Violet Line)'

Event Description : Afghanistan Studies Centre, Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia presents 'Kandahar' film screening as part of series of Movies on Afghanistan. 
The screening will be followed by a discussion. 
Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf examines the troubling story of life in neighbouring Afghanistan. Nafas is a reporter who was born in Afghanistan, but fled with her family to Canada as a child, escaping the violence of the country’s political instability. However, her sister wasn’t so lucky; she lost her legs to a land mine while young, and when Nafas and her family left the country, her sister was accidentally left behind. Nafas receives a letter from her sister announcing that she has decided to kill herself during the final eclipse before the dawn of the 21st century; desperate to spare her sister’s life, Nafas goes to Afghanistan, where she joins a caravan of refugees who, for a variety of reasons, are returning to the war-torn nation. As Nafas searches for her sister, she soon gets a clear and disturbing portrait of the toll the Taliban regime has taken upon its people. The movie was shown in competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Director : Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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