« Afghanistan is a forgotten country, deleted from the map. It took one event to prove its existence: September 11th, 2001. »
Irani-Afghani is a reportage expressing Majid Majidi’s perception of the situation of Afghan immigrants and of Afghanistan, a country who has been losing it’s identity for a decade.
It’s also a documentary featuring exclusive footage of Baran and Pieds Nus Vers Herat (Barefoot towards Herat), two movies by the director Majid Majidi.
Majidi was interested in Afghanistan long before September 11. His movie Baran won the Grand Prix des Amériques at the 25th Movies of the World Festival of Montreal in 2001.
After having won this award, he decides to do a documentary: Pieds Nus Vers Herat (Barefoot towards Herat) that was bought by Miramax a few weeks before 9/11, before it was even shot.
Majidi finds himself in Afghanistan a few days before the fall of the Talibans and is arrested in the turmoil. When the Taliban regime crumbles, he goes back to Afghanistan, to finish this documentary taken in the struggle between 2 different regimes.
Irani-Afghani is a modern tale told by the Iranian film maker himself and by his Lebanese producer, Fouad Nahas. |
