The read
Critics rate it 37 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 26m.
Synopsis
In rural Afghanistan, people are storytellers who make up and tell each other tales of mystery and imagination to explain the world in which they live. The shepherd children own the mountains and, although no adults are around, they know the rules; they know that boys and girls are not allowed to be together. The boys practice with their slings to fight wolves. The girls smoke secretly and play at getting married, dreaming of finding a husband soon. They gossip about Sediqa; she’s eleven years old and an outsider. The girls think she is cursed. Qodrat, also eleven years old, becomes the subject of gossip when his mother remarries an old man with two wives. Qodrat roams alone in the most isolated parts of the mountains, where he meets Sediqa and they become friends.
Ratings
Critics rate it 37 points higher than audiences do.
14 audience votes
Key crew
- Shahrbanoo SadatDirector
- Shahrbanoo SadatScreenplay
Cast
- Sediqa RasuliCast
- Qodratollah QadiriCast
- Amina MusaviCast
- Sahar KarimiCast
- Masuma HussainiCast
- Said Mohammad Amin NaderiCast
- Zekria Khoda DadiCast
- Sediqa RasuliSediqa
- Qodratollah QadiriQodrat
- Amina MusaviSabzina
- Sahar KarimiNikbakht
- Masuma HussainiNazok