Summer 1998 - Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. Mohsen's dream of becoming a diplomat has been shattered and Zunaira can no longer even appear on the streets of Kabul unveiled. Atiq is a jailer who guards those who have been condemned to death; the darkness of prison and the wretchedness of his job have seeped into his soul. Atiq's wife, Musarrat, is suffering from an illness no doctor can cure. Yet, the lives of these four people are about to become inexplicably intertwined, through death and imprisonment to passion and extraordinary self-sacrifice. "Intense, elegant, despairing prose...deeply affecting." (Guardian)

Keywords

• Animation
• Another Kind of Animation
• Cannes: Un Certain Regard
• Cine-Short: 90 Minutes of cinema
• City Trips: Movies with City names
• Festival de Cannes
• Fien Troch’s favourite films
• Film Festival Oostende
• Movies you need to watch once in your life
• Just released
• Politics: Human Rights
• World Cinema
• history

Actors

• Simon Abkarian
• Swann Arlaud
• Michel Jonasz
• Pascal Elbé

Director

• Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec
• Zabou Breitman