Earth and Ashes

Earth and Ashes
Persianخاکستر و خاک
Directed byAtiq Rahimi
Written byKambuzia Partovi
Atiq Rahimi
Produced byDimitri de Clercq
StarringAbdul Ghani
CinematographyÉric Guichard
Edited byUrszula Lesiak
Production
companies
Afghan Film
Les Films du Lendemain
Release date
  • 13 May 2004 (2004-05-13)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryAfghanistan
LanguageDari

Earth and Ashes (Persian: خاکستر و خاک) is a 2004 Afghan film directed and co-written by Atiq Rahimi, based on his book of the same name which was published in 2000. It was Afghanistan's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but was not nominated.[1][2] It was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.[3] It won the Golden Dhow award at the 2005 Zanzibar International Film Festival.[4]

Cast

  • Abdul Ghani as Dastaguir
  • Jawan Mard Homayoun as Yassin
  • Kader Arefi as Fateh
  • Guilda Chahverdi as Zaynab
  • Walli Tallosh as Mirza Qadir
  • Malik Akhlaqi as Malik Khan

See also

References

  1. ↑ "50 Countries in Competition for Oscar". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2004-10-22. Archived from the original on June 11, 2007. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  2. ↑ "2005 Oscars 77th Academy Awards Nominees". Yahoo! Movies. 2005-01-25. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  3. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Earth and Ashes". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
  4. ↑ "Festival de Zanzibar : palmarès". Africultures.com. July 2005. Retrieved 2009-10-25.