At Five in the Afternoon directed by the Iranian film-maker Samira Makhmalbaf, was awarded the 29th Prize of the Ecumenical Jury for her "vision of the world which offers a poetical look at life and the future," declared the jury, headed by the French Reverend Denyse M�ller.
Samira Makhmalbaf who won the Grand Jury Prize in 2000, for Blackboard, had this to say; " I wanted to show Afghanistan as it is today and to show that a Rambo type figure can't save Afghanistant.
Samira in Closing Ceremony
More about the prize in Farsi language
Samira Makhmalbaf Speaks Out
Samira Makhmalbaf: �I didn't want to put it in the political way. I think, as an author and filmmaker, I have to serve as a representative of nations, people, human beings living in a nation, not the politicians. Yes, in the movie, they are talking about politics and the main character wants to become President. But, because I couldn't tolerate it that much, I chose to write the character of a boy who loves poetry and who doesn't like politics because it doesn't change anything for him. (...) When my father shot Kandahar, everyone asked him why he chose to talk about such an insignificant country. I wanted to focus on the situation in Afghanistan (i.e., after the fall of the Taliban regime). I don't think it is possible through television and satellites. We saw the Americans liberating Afghanistan, but reality is far different from what was shown on TV. I tried to better capture the situation of men and women living in that country. (...) The main character of the film is a woman. It was very hard to find an actress to interpret her, because Afghan women didn't want to show their faces. Their living conditions have improved since 2002, but they are still afraid that the Taliban will return. Besides, not showing themselves is part of their culture.�
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