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Award-Winning Film Looks At Life Under Taliban
Tuesday, November 13, 2001
(20:17 GMT)
The Cable News Network

The movie "Kandahar," about an Afghan woman living in Canada who travels back to her homeland to save her sister, has been an international hit.
Picture Credit: Makhmalbaf Film House.

Makhmalbaf says you cannot get rid of the Taliban just by force.

TEHRAN, Iran -- CNN
As the world's attention is focused on Afghanistan, a feature film about life under the Taliban has become a runaway success in Europe.

Based on a real story, "Kandahar" is about an Afghan woman living in Canada making a journey to save her suicidal sister back in Afghanistan. It's shot on locations in Iran near the Afghanistan border, using Afghan refugees as actors.

Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf says he wanted to make a film about a forgotten people under what he calls the savage rule of the Taliban, in the midst of a devastating drought, and after 20 years of war.
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