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Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame
Nominated for Asian Film Awards

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Hana Makhmalbaf’s feature film Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame is in the running for “Best Film” at the 2nd Annual Asian Film Awards.

 

The Hong Kong Film Festival launched the Asian Film Awards last year. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Hong Kong on March 17th.

 

The film will also be screening at this year Berlinale, one of four Iranian films to be shown. A main theme of this year’s festival will be the multitude of problems of children across the world.

 

“Never before, have there been these many movies about the fate of children,” said festival director Dieter Kosslick.

 

The Berlin Film Festival takes place February 7 to 17, 2008 in Berlin. More than 5,000 films were sent to the Berlinale and over 4,000 journalists have been accredited for the top film event in Germany.

 

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A Message From Director Hana Makhmalbaf

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January 18, 2008
Tehran, Iran

 

To The Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival:

 

I was very happy to hear that you are screening my film Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame on the Opening Night of a film festival that carries the title “Human Rights.” I am also disappointed I cannot join you on such a courageous occasion.

 

This December marks the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, all over the world, human rights are still being violated by human beings themselves. I have asked myself for many years now: Who is doing the violating?

 

Recently, I found an answer to this mystery: I, you, he, she, we, they.

 

Despite having witnessed all the violent wars, fascism, jails, torture, genocide and poverty in the world, it continues. If we keep silent, we, too, are all participants in the violation of human rights.

 

Bakhtay, the little girl in the film, might not be aware of the fact that it is almost 60 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted.

 

In this unfair world, filled with inequality and injustice, and all alone on her own two tiny feet, Bakhtay wanders through the mountains and deserts of her country in search of something missing: that something is called Human Rights.

 

Thank you,
Hana Makhmalbaf

 

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Hana Makhmalbaf Wins “Woman & Equality” Award at TIFF (Greece)

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Hana Makhmalbaf, the 20-year-old director of “Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame” has won the “Woman & Equality” Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, which took place this past November in Greece. This is the fifth award for the film in the last two months.

 

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Video: Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame

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A conversation between Eric Cinq-Mars and Mona Tajali of Concordia University for CitizenShift. Recorded after a Montreal screening of Hana Makhmalbaf’s “Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame.”

 

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Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

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Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame

 

Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (Iran)
Director: Hana Makhmalbaf
Year: 2007
Runtime: 81 minutes
Cast: Nikbakht Noruz, Abdolali Hoseinali
Screening Times: February 28, 2008, 8:00 PM
Screens at Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles Street West

 

Synopsis:
A dramatic and horrifying illustration of the tragedy that has befallen the children of Afghanistan. Made by a young Iranian woman director (Hana of the famed Makhmalbaf family), this gritty story of a tiny girl who want to go to school is filmed against the wreckage of the bombed out Buddha on the great Silk Road. It is a tough and true depiction of the daily violence in which most Afghani’s live.

 

Read this longer synopsis by John deFore of The Hollywood Reporter.

Epoch Times review — “A colorful but devastating journey to the Middle East.”

 

Director’s Biography:
Born on September 3rd, 1988 in Tehran, Hana started Makhmalbaf Film School after she finished second grade and studied cinema for eight years. She has been the script supervisor and photographer for a few films. Her first film ‘The Day My Aunt Was Ill” received international attention at Locarno Film Festival in 1997 when she was only 9 years old. At age 14 Hana made a behind-the-scenes documentary of her sister’s film, “Stray Dogs.” She published her first book of poetry “Visa for One Moment” in 2003. “Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame” is her first feature.

 

Interview with Hana Makhmalbaf on SubalternCinema.

 

Awards:
Special Jury Prize, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Spain
TVE Award, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Spain
UNICEF “Paolo Ungari” Special Award, Rome International Film Festival
Daniel Langlois Innovation Prize, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montreal
Woman and Equality Award, Thessaloniki Film Festival, Greece
Discovery Prize, Sarlat Film Festival, France

 

Overview by Julie Giles

 

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