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...Afghanistan?" This time, only Noqreh stands. President? she thinks. Why not? For a start, she'll run for president of her class. But family problems soon overwhelm her ambitions. There's no water, and no milk for her sister's newborn child. And no place to stay. People find shelter in the hull of an abandoned plane or in the ruins of a palace. After occupation by the Soviets, the Taliban and the U.S., Afghanistan is rich in ruins...
...school but not the respect of their conservative fathers. The film shimmers and shudders with hopeful and horrifying vignettes. Girls declare themselves ready to be doctors, teachers, even the President of Afghanistan. Amid the optimism, anarchy rules. There is no water to drink, no place to stay. People find shelter in the hull of an abandoned plane, in the ruins of a palace. After 20 years of brutal occupation, Afghanistan is rich in ruins. The film never raises its voice, but the 23-year-old Makhmalbaf did - on closing night, when At Five in the Afternoon won the Jury Prize...
...rehabilitate Iran diplomatically, but the hard-liners may have hedged their bets. It remains unlikely that the government of President Mohammed Khatami has made common cause with al-Qaeda operatives, although it has long been alleged that hard-liners in the Revolutionary Guard have unofficially provided some with shelter in Iran. Al-Qaeda may also have set up shop in the predominantly Sunni border region of eastern Iran, where central government authority is more limited and the authorities have lost thousands of men in battles with smugglers...
...high fence topped with barbed wire. Ximenes had gone back to his wife and child in the town of Laga, east of Baucau, but was told they couldn't afford to support him. With nowhere else to go, he went to the compound, which at least provides shelter for displaced former fighters like him. "I was a brave man," says Ximenes. "I am not anything...
...believe it when I see it," says one 45-year-old village leader, who is too afraid to give his name. We meet in the ramshackle sports hall of Lhokseumawe Polytechnic, where about a thousand refugees (700 of them children) from two villages near Simpang Keramhave sought shelter from a troop buildup in their area. They rely on donations begged from vehicles passing the campus gates...