Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes in 2004, Siddiq Barmak's extraordinary film Osama is the first feature film to be made in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban. Visually audacious and emotionally compelling, the film follows the story of a girl who is forced to disguise herself as a boy during the Taliban's regime in order to earn money to feed her family. The lead actress Marina Golbahari was literally chosen off the street by the director, and gives an outstanding performance which belies her inexperience as an actress...
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