Hana Makhmalbaf: "Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame" (1)

Nineteen-year-old Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf (daughter of Mohsen and younger sister of Samira) presented "Buda az sharm foru rikht") in the section Generation Kplus (for children of 11 years and older) at the Berlinale 2008. Apart from winning the principal prize of that section, the film also received the 23rd Film Peace Prize, awarded by the IPPNW. It tells the story of 5-year-old Bakhtay who lives in the Afghan town of Bamiyan where in 2001 the Taliban blew up the famous Buddha statues that were carred into the rock about 1,500 years ago. Bakhtay desperately wants to go to school, but then she is confronted with the brutal war games of the boys of the neighbourhood, who take her prisoner and threaten to stone her to death...

This is how Hana Makhmalbaf responded to the questions of the audience after the screening. As you will notice, some of the questions were asked by kids...

In Farsi with English subtitles. Added pictures have been taken from the website www.makhmalbaf.com, the added music is the beginning of the song "Bade Saba", by Sussan Deyhim.

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Film & Animation

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• Iranian
• Cinema
• Afghanistan
• Bamiyan
• Hana
• Makhmalbaf
• Sussan
• Deyhim
• Buda

[roygbiv330]

thanks to english subtitles, i can understand what she said. thank you.

[deuxfleuves]

No problem. Fortunately there was an interpreter present, otherwise I wouldn't have understood anything either.

[wlyu]

I really want to watch this film but I don't think any company distributed in America. Does anyone know where I can order DVD? Maybe Canada? Amazon in UK doesn't ship to US?

[deuxfleuves]

I bought the DVD in Spain. But there are no English subtitles...

[ketan9728]

great work Hana... you have conveyed a very good and real message through the Film "Buddha collapsed out of shame"...

I was very much touched by it... and l like the role of the girl, that how she is trying to sustain her determination even after a lot of obstacles for her passion of studying...

It brought tears in my eyes... :-)

[mistershinobi]

I love how the questions are so.............. lame. Mostly because there were children in the audience, right? Asking the questions. Anyway, she has great control over an audience, I love how she speaks about her film. Love her.

[keshavayg]

@jisamhad you are one of the idiot of idiots who dont do other than this kind of statements, and you think you are only one pure like your friends and directly descened from god. its false hood.

[bagusxfantasy]

10 out of 10 for the movie.

[baqirmoamen]

@wlyu I dont know how and where can you order the DVD. But I can advice you to watch the different parts of the film in youtube.

[rajaz001]

Well done Hana, I am also a 19 year old Iranian girl, and i'm very proud of you! Bravo =]

[BeamSurfer]

Allahu-Akbar!

All praise the Lord

Buddhism teaches and speaks for the Shay-tan and Atheism.

[bravetears]

"We all have to die blessedly in order to be able to exist"

wow.

[wellhard11]

I was watching the film a few weeks ago on bbc2 but did't see all of it because it was on to late and i had to go work the next day. I was a lovely hard hitting movie, would like to see the rest of it.

[hajosymo17]

különleges filmbemutató márc. 30-án 19 órakor a Toldi moziban

[1GXG]

@mlingeshashree true

In the west too often we see the bearded faces of so called insurgents/terrorists/extremis­ts , we forget the dire consequences it has on children , stemming from those adults who believe in practising orthodox Islam ,