Barefoot to Herat

2002 film by Majid Majidi
Barefoot to Herat
Directed byMajid Majidi
Written byMajid Majidi
Produced byMajid Majidi, Fouad Nahas
Distributed by2t3mtv Television Inc. (Canada)
Running time
70 min.
LanguagePersian

Barefoot to Herat (Persian: پابرهنه تا هرات, Pa Berahneh ta Herat) is a 2002 Iranian film by Majid Majidi. It is a documentary about the plight of Afghan refugees just after the 2001 military offensive against the Taliban.[1][2][3]

Background

The film was shot primarily at two refugee camps in Western Afghanistan, one called Makaki in a territory controlled by the Northern Alliance. The rest of the film was shot at another camp called Maslakh, in the city of Herat. The camps are makeshift and conditions are inhumane, making them ill-suited for families whose lives have been torn apart by war. Through interviews with peasants, soldiers, children, and the elderly, Majidi finds the human spirit intact, and still in need of joy and memories and dreams.

Awards

  • 2004 FIPRESCI Prize, Greece [1]

Sources

  • Synopsis from Cinemajidi.com
  1. ^ Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building
  2. ^ The A to Z of Iran
  3. ^ Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema

External links

  • Barefoot to Herat at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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Films directed by Majid Majidi
  • Baduk (1992)
  • The Father (1996)
  • Children of Heaven (1997)
  • The Color of Paradise (1999)
  • Baran (2001)
  • Barefoot to Herat (2002)
  • The Willow Tree (2005)
  • The Song of Sparrows (2008)
  • Muhammad: The Messenger of God (2015)
  • Beyond the Clouds (2017)
  • Sun Children (2020)


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