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19-year-old Hana Makhmalbaf’s second film – following the acclaimed Joy of Madness (2003), which she made when she was just 14 – is an unsubtle yet thoroughly compelling and viscerally affecting allegorical tale of Taliban and post-Taliban era Afghan life, following a 6-year-old girl’s frustrating and oft perilous attempts to go to school. Iain.Stott
