When Pomegranates Howl

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2021

WarDrama

1 hour 23 minutes

Summary

Shot on the streets of Kabul, Granaz Moussavi’s (My Tehran For Sale) outstanding new feature is in the tradition of the great child-centred works of the 1980s when filmmakers such as Kiarostami, Panahi and Amir Naderi (to whom this film is dedicated) were putting Iranian cinema in the forefront of world production. 9-year-old Hewad is an irrepressible, street-smart kid who is energetically working every angle, hustling everything from pomegranate juice to amulets to protection from the evil eye. His real ambition is to be a movie star, and this comes a step closer when he meets an Australian photographer. But in a city where every family has a member who has been “martyred,” the streets are as perilous as they are vivid. Australia’s recent involvement with Afghanistan has been mixed, to say the best. The deeply-felt humanism of this film might just be our most effective contribution to that troubled country.

~ A rich new work from the streets of Kabul

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Original NameVaght-e Chigh-e Anar (When Pomegranates Howl)

StatusReleased: 3 years ago
November 18, 2021

Languageپښتو

Spoken LanguagesEnglish, فارسی, پښتو

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