Siddiq Barmak:
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Siddiq Barmak (Born September 7, 1962 in Panjshir, Afghanistan) is an Afghan film director and producer. He received an M.A degree in cinema direction from Moscow Film Institute (VGIK) in 1987.
He has written a few screenplays and has made a few short films. His first feature film Osama won Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2004.
There is a stylistic echo in Osama of the "Afghan" films by the Iranian Makhmalbaf dynasty - father Mohsen's Kandahar and daughter Samira Makhmalbaf's At Five in the Afternoon, the latter also shot in post-Taliban Kabul. Barmak directed Osama with significant funding and assistance from Mohsen Makhmalbaf; the Iranian director invested thousands of dollars in the film, lent Barmak his Arriflex camera and encouraged him to send the movie to international festivals, which eventually generated further funding from Japanese and Irish producers.[1] Barmak received "UNESCO’s Fellini Silver Medal" for his drama, Osama, in 2003.
Barmak is also director of the Afghan Children Education Movement (ACEM), an association that promotes literacy, culture and the arts, founded by Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The school trains actors and directors for the newly emerging Afghan cinema. Barmak is one of the celebrated figures in Persian cinema as well as emerging cinema of Afghanistan.
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OSAMA MOVIE SYNOPSIS:
A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work. The Taliban have also forbidden women to leave their houses without a male "legal companion." With her husband and brother dead, killed in battle, there is no one left to support the family. Without being able to leave the house, the mother is left with nowhere to turn. Feeling that she has no other choice, she disguises her daughter as a boy. Now called 'Osama,' the girl embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she tries to keep the Taliban from finding out her true identity. Inspired by a true story, Osama is the first entirely Afghan film shot since the fall of the Taliban. Written by Anonymous
In Afghanistan, during the Taliban regime, women are forbidden to work and to walk on the streets without the company of a male. The teenager girl Osama (Marina Golbahari) cuts her hair and dresses like a boy to get a job and support her widow mother and grandmother. There is no men in her family, since her father and her brother were killed in previous Afghan wars, and the family has no means of survival. When Osama, disguised as a boy, is called by the Taliban to join the school and military training, the boy Espandi (Arif Herati) tries to help her. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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STRANGER:
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Synopsis:
Morads wife Sanowbar has a nice voice and sings folk songs. They live in a village and work on the land of the village land lord Homayun. One day the chief and his foreign guest come to their cottage and ask Sanowbar to sing for the foreigner! But Morad thinks this is unusual and against tradition. Homayun threatens Morad and forces Sanowbar to sing!
Morad is caught between tradition, religion on and his social prestige in the village. he has no choice but to kill Homayun and his foreign friend! |
THE CIRCLE:
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Synopsis:
Dawar is a young terrorist who comes back to his homeland after a long time abroad he is supposed to blow the movie theater up with the help of his guide Faiz.
Dawar sets a time bomb there while watching a film about war and peace(Rustam and Sohrab, based on great tragic poem of Ferdawsi, Shahnamah), but the action fails and Faiz gets killed by the guardian of the cinema. Dawar escapes and looks for his old home; he remembers his childhood. The man who drove him into the eventually shoots him.
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GOLDEN GLOBE GOES TO ..... SIDDIQ BARMAK :-)
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A film made in Afghanistan shortly after the fall of the Taleban picked up the Golden Globe Award for best foreign language film.
Osama tells the story of a 12-year-old girl forced to disguise herself as a boy to help her family survive.
Director Siddiq Barmak fled Afghanistan in 1996, returning to make the film using an amateur cast of actors drawn from the streets and refugee centres.
The film has already won a number of film festival prizes around the world.
"I would like to dedicate this prize to the people who lost their trust in too much promises, to the people who lost the meaning of luck, to the people who gave me a wonderful film, Osama," Barmak told the Golden Globe audience.
Afghanistan Information and Culture Minister Sayed Mahkdoom Raheen said: "We are not only happy but this is a source of pride for us." |
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