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SPOTLIGHT: MOHSEN MAKHMMALBAF & JAMES LONGLEY
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Director
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Producer
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cinematographer
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Editor
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Sound
Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Makhmalbaf Film House
2001
Iran
46 min
Color
Mohsen Makhmalbaf tracks the children who do not attend school in the border villages between Iran and Afghanistan with his digital camera and questions why they are not being educated. He finds girls studying in UNICEF classes in one region. One of the girls is not willing to come out of her burqa despite the fact that she has run away from Afghanistan and the Taliban are not present here. She is more afraid of the horrifying god that the Taliban have created more than the Taliban. The teacher tries…
Directors' Biography
<p>Born in 1957, Iran. Filmmaker, novelist, screenwriter, editor, producer, human right activist. In his teen years, he fought against the dictatorship in Iran and was injured by bullet shots by the police and spent some five years in prison as a political prisoner. He lost the use of his legs as a result of torture and underwent numerous operations before he could manage to walk again.</p>
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