When Pomegranates Howl 2021
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.
- Title: When Pomegranates Howl
- Year: 2021
- Genre: War, Drama
- Country: Afghanistan, Australia
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- Director: Granaz Moussavi
- Cast: Arafat Faiz, Elham Ayazi, Andrew Quilty
- Crew: Tapio Liukkonen (Foley Artist), Granaz Moussavi (Director), Elias Azizi (Editor), Granaz Moussavi (Screenplay), Ali Azizi (Editor), Christine Williams (Producer)
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- Release: Nov 18, 2021
- Runtime: 83 minutes
- IMDb: 7.00 / 10 by 3 users
- Popularity: 0
- Budget: $0
- Revenue: $0
- Language: English, فارسی, پښتو
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