Forum of Independents - Competition 2004 / Lezate Divanegi / Iran 2003
Autumn 2002, Kabul, Afghanistan. This documentary on the making of Samira Makhmalbaf’s At Five in the Afternoon was shot by her younger sister, 14-year-old Hana Makhmalbaf.
Autumn 2002, Kabul, Afghanistan. Just after the fall of the Taliban, Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of well-known Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, began looking for actors and actresses. She sought to cast locals in At Five in the Afternoon (Panj é asr), a film about an Afghan girl who dreams of becoming president of Afghanistan. The casting call and location become, through the lens of her 14-year-old sister’s digital camera, an opportunity to investigate Afghan society and, in particular, the aspirations of women, their insecurities and their mistrust of the freedoms they have just re-obtained.
70 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Hana Makhmalbaf
/ Screenplay Hana Makhmalbaf
/ Music Mohammed Reza Safiri
/ Editor Mastaneh Mohajer
/ Production Makhmalbaf Film House
/ Contact Makhmalbaf Film House, GoodFellas
Hana Makhmalbaf (b. 1988, Tehran) is younger sister of Samira Makhmalbaf and renowned Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s youngest daughter. In 1997 she directed the short documentary The Day My Aunt Was Ill. She is also author of the poetry collection Visa for One Moment.
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