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Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

Crystal Bear, Berlin Film Festival 2008
Iran, France/2007/Persian/81 min/Fiction
Director: Hana Makhmalbaf
Audio: Dari
Subtitles: English, Japanese
Distributor: Moviola, cafegroove

Baktay, a 6 year old Afghan girl, is determined: she wants to go to a recently opened girls' school across the river. But to do so she must overcome her family's poverty and indifference, and face the torment of boys whose ruthless games enact the terrible violence that they have witnessed through years of civil war.

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