Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame - Theatrical and Home Ent publicity

Home Ent release date: 10 November 2008

Theatrical release date: 25 July 2008

Distribution: Slingshot Studios

Director: Hana Makhmalbaf

Starring: Nikbakht Noruz, Abdolali Hoseinali, Abbas Alijome

From Hana Makhmalbaf, daughter of acclaimed director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, comes her second feature film, Buddha Collapsed out of Shame. Set in Bamian, amidst the rubble of the massive statues of Buddha blown up by the Taliban in 2001, the film is a deeply felt political allegory of the impossible situation facing girls and women in Afghanistan today. Intimately told from a child’s perspective, including a world of make-believe that is both exhilarating and terrifying, the film follows six-year-old Bakhtay, who decides she will at all costs go to school. She sets out on an odyssey that pits this endearingly obstinate girl against numerous, seemingly insurmountable obstacles — including, most ominously, a band of boys pretending to be the Taliban.

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