Director
64 years old
Atiq Rahimi
Kabul, Afghanistan
Notre-Dame du Nil
Atiq Rahimi
2019
1h 33m
A coming-of-age story about of a group of Rwandan schoolgirls at a Belgian-run Catholic boarding school.
Syngué sabour, pierre de patience
Atiq Rahimi
2012
1h 42m
A woman in an unnamed, war-torn Middle Eastern country delivers an engrossing, emotional monologue to her comatose husband, in novelist and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi's poetic and politically charged allegory based on his award-winning novel. (TIFF)
Khakestar-o-khak
Atiq Rahimi
2004
1h 45m
Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk, as they make their way to the coal mine where Dastaguir's son Murad works. Dastaguir must tell Murad that the rest of their family were all killed in a recent bomb attack.
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