简介：2000年三月，与自己的助手Seifollah Samadian两个人，《何处是我朋友的家》的伊朗导演阿巴斯·克罗斯塔米接受IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development)的邀请，来到他不曾到过的所在，非洲。在乌甘达的村落坎帕拉，他的十日之旅，随著两架随身的小机器──数位摄影机，两个人随时拍下了所见所闻，然后，回到伊朗进行后制，就重重叠叠，从写实纪录进入了一种有趣的「虚构」气味。生命与死亡，音乐与沉默，泪水与欢笑，从写实的纪录到洋溢在画格间的诗。他们浑然一体。IFAD这个国际组织，主要是对全世界发起一项伸出援手活动，救助当地居民，由于爱滋病，已经引起成千上万的孤儿，双亲已死，或是丧失配偶，或是随时面临死亡荫影的小孩。阿巴斯以他一贯和小孩相处的热度，以轻便俭约，因而高度灵活的数位摄影机，敏锐的捕捉所有的细节，从自然风景到人的风景──一张张最美丽的脸。这是一部考察非洲儿童与社会状况的纪录片。2000年，阿巴斯接受IFAD国际组织的邀请，与自己的助手来到非洲。IFAD国际组织在世界范围内组织一项援助活动，救助当地居民，比如由于爱滋病而成为的孤儿的孩子。阿巴斯在非洲乌甘达的村落坎帕拉呆了十天，用DV拍下一路见闻，包括死亡与生命，悲伤与欢笑。他回到伊朗后，把这些素材进行整理，把写实与虚构相结合，制作了《ABC到非洲》。
简介：Post September 11, Mohsen Makhmalbaf tracks the children who do not attend school in the border villages between Iran and Afghanistan with his digital camera and questions why they are not being educated. He finds girls studying in UNICEF classes in one region. One of the girls is not willing to come out of her burqa despite the fact that she has run away from Afghanistan and the Taliban are not present here. She is more afraid of the horrifying god that the Taliban have created more than the Taliban. The teacher tries… Director's commentary: The Taliban was not a political regime in Afghanistan but they are still a culture. Bombarding can ruin a political regime but it cannot change a culture. You cannot free a woman whom is imprisoned in the burqa with a rocket. The Afghan girl needs education. She doesn’t know that she doesn’t know. She is imprisoned but she does not know that she is a prisoner of poverty, ignorance, prejudice, male chauvinism and superstition. 95% of the women and 80% of the men in Afghanistan did not have the chance to attend school even before the Taliban. The film seeks the lost key to be able to open the lock of the cultural problems of Afghanistan. From the IMDB: In 2002 about 3 million Afghan Refugee were living in Iran. From those about 700,000 were Afghan Children who were not allowed to go to Iranian schools because of their illegal status in Iran. After this movie was made, this subject became controversial and finally the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) passed a bill in which the Afghani children were allowed to go to school and it resulted in 500,000 kids getting education.
