At Five In The Afternoon
(À Cinq Heures De L'Après-Midi)
106 minutes,
Iran (2003), U
Average user rating 
(4.1 / 16 votes)
(4.1 / 16 votes)
Set in Afghanistan a year after the fall of the Taliban regime, director Samira Makhmalbaf's third feature focuses on the plight of women in the country, as seen through the eyes of a 23-year-old who dreams of becoming president
Director:
At Five In The Afternoon Overview
Promotion
Read the review
At Five In The Afternoon: While her last film Blackboards was inspired by the nomadic teachers of Kurdistan, here Samira Makhmalbaf turns to her geographical neighbours, in particular the young women of Afghanistan. It was her father Mohsen Makhmalbaf whose prophetic 2001 film Kandahar put the eponymous Afghan city on the world stage before the subsequent US incursion into the country...
Read the At Five In The Afternoon full review
