At Five in the Afternoon (2003)

Original title

پنج عصر

Directed by

Samira Makhmalbaf

Genre

drama film

Country

Iran, France

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

+13

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in post-Taliban Afghanistan strives to become educated. She faces strict societal barriers as she pursues her dream of learning.

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What happens

At Five in the Afternoon (Persian: پنج عصر, romanized: Panj é asr) is a 2003 film by Iranian writer-director Samira Makhmalbaf. It tells the story of an ambitious young woman trying to gain an education in Afghanistan after the 2001 ouster of the Taliban rule. The title comes from a Federico García Lorca poem and is a tale of flourishing against the odds. It was the first film from Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban. The film premiered In Competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival and was awarded the Jury Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. It won Golden Peacock (Best Film) at the 34th International Film Festival of India. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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