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The Patience Stone - winner of the V, Didor IFF
The film The Patience Stone made by Atiq Rahimi had awarded Grand-Prix of the V, IFF Didor (Dushanbe)!
A woman in an unnamed, war-torn Middle Eastern country delivers an engrossing, emotional monologue to her comatose husband, in novelist and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi's poetic and politically charged allegory based on his award-winning novel.
Atiq Rahimi, the Afghan author who took refuge in France following the Soviet invasion of his country, leapt to international prominence with the publication in 2002 of his book Earth and Ashes, which he adapted into a prize-winning film that screened at the Festival in 2004. Eight years later, he returns with The Patience Stone, adapted from his novel of the same name, which won the illustrious Prix Goncourt in 2008. Set in an unnamed Middle Eastern country beset by armed insurrection, Rahimi’s second film is a probing, poetic and politically charged allegory that employs a deceptively simple scenario to address the plight of modern-day Muslim women who are still ruled by archaic laws and traditions.
Gulbara Tolomushova from Dushanbe
P.S. Premendra Mazumder had informed: "Golshifteh Farahani got the Best Actress Award of New Horizons Competition of Abu Dhabi Film Festival, UAE for her high performance in The Patience Stone".
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