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We are postmodern
Year:2009
Authorship: Alka Sadat
A 14-years-old girl begs for money on the street with her mother. A guy about the same age gives them a coin every day he passes by, pushing his bicycle. Days are passing by, all the same, the call of the mosque scans time.
One day the mother dies. The girl now begs alone for money and wears her mother's burka. The young guy passing by this time gives the girl a flower instead of a coin.
Alka Sadat (Herat, Afghanistan, 1986), studied the basics of cinema by hersef, reading books and watching films, since, under the Taliban regime, girls were not allowed to leave the house and they could neither study nor work.
In 2005 she attended a film workshop in Goethe-Institut in Kabul.
In 2007 she graduated from High School in Herat.
Among her works, one should especially note Alka’s prizewinning documentary “1,2,3…?” (2007), a short filmed in Afghan hospitals that shows the desperation of young women who set themselves on fire to escape the violence they suffer at home.
Through her documentaries, Alka wants to tell the world about the plight of women in her country and the violence that they daily undergo.
In 2008 Alka was awarded a scholarship at Fabrica, Benetton’s communication research centre in Italy, where she realized various videos, among them, two short films titled “A fragile rock” and “We are postmodern”, that portray the actual Afghani situation through the eyes of children.
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