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...takes a certain skill to lose money on an opium field in Afghanistan. Afghan filmmaker Siddiq Barmak lost about $97,000 on his. For the making of his latest film, Opium War, which is set in a poppy field, Barmak had found the perfect site - a lonely hilltop in central Afghanistan, framed by the snow-covered peaks of nearby mountains. With the stunning vision of pink poppies swaying against the slopes of the Hindu Kush in mind, he finally obtained permission from the government to plant the illegal crop. Then he and his crew got to work building...
...Opium War, Afghanistan's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at this year's Oscars and the follow-up to Barmak's Osama, which won a Golden Globe in 2004, is a black comedy. Barmak wasn't expecting the making-of story to be quite as absurd. Still, he is sanguine. "All these disasters, this struggle and search, that's what making a film is all about," says the 46-year-old director. "It's the perfect parable for Afghanistan: nothing ever works the way you think it will...
...absolutely convinced that this is not a representative sample,” said AACRAO Executive Director Barmak Nassirian...
...powerful Spanish domestic-violence drama Take My Eyes before it picked up seven Goya awards in February; the film starts its Europewide run in April, but has already taken in over €4 million in Spain. Indie Circle also bought Osama - the award-winning debut from Afghan director Siddiq Barmak, which has just been released to critical acclaim and grossed €210,000 in its first three weeks. "So far, so good," says Mercier. "They've done as well as we expected." Previously, the closest Europe got to a Continentwide network was London-based PolyGram, a film studio that built...
...Barmak found his Osama leading lady on a Kabul street: a girl approached him, begging for money. "Her eyes," he says, "were like an explosion of light." Golbahari didn't need to reach deep for the emotions she was to show onscreen. "He asked what made me sad," she says. "I thought about my sisters, who died during the war, and I just started crying...