When Pomegranates Howl

Synopsis

Shot on the streets of Kabul, Granaz Moussavi’s (My Tehran For Sale) outstanding new feature is in the tradition of the great child-centred works of the 1980s when filmmakers such as Kiarostami, Panahi and Amir Naderi (to whom this film is dedicated) were putting Iranian cinema in the forefront of world production. 9-year-old Hewad is an irrepressible, street-smart kid who is energetically working every angle, hustling everything from pomegranate juice to amulets to protection from the evil eye. His real ambition is to be a movie star, and this comes a step closer when he meets an Australian photographer. But in a city where every family has a member who has been “martyred,” the streets are as perilous as they are vivid. Australia’s recent involvement with Afghanistan has been mixed, to say the best. The deeply-felt humanism of this film might just be our most effective contribution to that troubled country.

Main Cast

Arafat Faiz

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Elham Ayazi

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Andrew Quilty

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Editing	Editor	Nima Nabilirad Ali Azizi Elias Azizi Shima Monfared Ali Akhavan
Writing	Screenplay	Granaz Moussavi
Production	Producer	Baheer Wardak Marzieh Vafamehr Christine Williams
Sound	Music	Hossein Alizadeh
	Foley Artist	Tapio Liukkonen
Directing	Director	Granaz Moussavi
Camera	Director of Photography	Behrouz Badrouj
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