| Afghanistan,
Haghighat-e Gomshodeh |
| Afghanistan,
The Lost Truth |
| Yasamin
Malek-Nasr |
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“Filming Afghanistan, the Lost Truth was an experience
as precious as the famed rubies of Badakhshan region. I entered
this exotic, mysterious and historic land shortly after the
fall of the Taliban regime. Our intention was to seek love
and life – not aversion and death. This hope was my
small crew guiding light. Despite the turmoil in Afghanistan,
there is life and it is a timeless essence that I hoped to
capture in the film. Men, women and children voice their hopes,
aspirations and how trusting they are to the future. The future
which itself is the mystery of existence in contemporary Afghanistan.”
Yassamin Maleknasr
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Screenplay/ Yassamin Maleknasr
Photography (colour)/ Ali-Reza Taghikhani
Editing/ Saeed Shahsavari
Sound/ Mohammad Emami
Production/ Yassamin Maleknasr
Year of Production/ 2003
Running Time 64’ |
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Yasamin Malek-Nasr born in 1955 in Tehran, Yassamin Maleknasr
graduated in filmmaking from the University of Southern California
(usc) and then attained a post-graduate degree in Drama from
Towson State University in usa. She made her first short film,
Jazz Ballet, in America. Back home and she acted in Dariush
Mehrjui’s Sara (1993) which brought her the Best Supporting
Actress Award of Fajr festival in Tehran. Her début
film is The Common Plight (1995). She’s made several
documentaries like Bababaghi which documents the lives of
lepers and their families in the outskirts of Tabriz and Iran
through Foreign Eyes, an account of foreign women living in
Iran.
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