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French-Afghan Filmmaker Wins Award in Tajikistan

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Western Europe, Afghanistan, France, Tajikistan, Arts & Culture, Citizen Media, Film, Women & Gender
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The Patience Stone has won the main award at a film festival in Tajikistan. Image from Wikipedia.

Atiq Rahimi [2]‘s The Patience Stone [3] has won the main award for best feature film at the Didor International Film Festival [4] in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The film addresses [5] “the plight of modern-day Muslim women who are still ruled by archaic laws and traditions”. Rahimi is an Afghan writer and film-maker who has lived in France since 1984. Blogger Jovid Muqim writes [6] [tj] about the film and other features screened at Didor.