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STRAY DOGS
introduced by its director: Marzieh Meshkini (2004)
On the bombed streets of Kabul, on their own, a young brother and sister, Zahed and Gol-Ghotai, along with countless other children, scavenge to survive. The pair discover a charred book; like wood scraps, this can be sold for burning—for heat. The U.S.-Taliban war in Afghanistan—punctuating shots show a U.S. plane high in the sky—has purged books of their informative, educational and sacred uses: a transformation of the children’s future. Zahed and Gol-Ghotai rescue a little dog that, in a scene suggesting James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931), is being targeted by a mass of torch-wielding children who want to burn it for being a “foreign dog,” a U.S. invader, a Russian invader, whatever—really, a painful reminder of the childhood that has been ripped from their lives. Everything is ripe for burning. Both of Zahed and Gol-Ghotai’s parents are in separate prisons. A Taliban, their father is being moved to a U.S. prison; his five years’ absence led their mother to remarry, making her in the eyes of the law “a whore.” She pleads with her children to get their father to withdraw the charge against her without revealing the reason for her desperation: it is likely she will be stoned or possibly burned alive for her “crime.”
Sag-haye velgard is the second of three films by Iranian writer-director Marzieh Meshkini. (The Day I Became a Woman (2000))
Stray Dogs
In post-Taliban Kabul, two lost children, brother and sister whose parents are in prison, try to survive every day by scavenging for food. At night, they join their imprisoned mother.
- Year:
- 2004
- Runtime:
- 93 minutes
- Language:
- Persian
- Director:
- Marziyeh Meshkiny
- Screenwriter:
- Marziyeh Meshkiny
- Cast:
- Zahed, Gol-Ghotai, Agheleh Rezaie
- Cinematographer:
- Ebrahim Ghafori, Maysam Makhmalbaf
- Editor:
- Mastane Mohajer
- Production Design:
- Akbar Meshkini
This page is to obtain access to the Sands Films Cinema Club presentation ONLINE
To attend in person, please CLICK HERE
STRAY DOGS
introduced by its director: Marzieh Meshkini (2004)
On the bombed streets of Kabul, on their own, a young brother and sister, Zahed and Gol-Ghotai, along with countless other children, scavenge to survive. The pair discover a charred book; like wood scraps, this can be sold for burning—for heat. The U.S.-Taliban war in Afghanistan—punctuating shots show a U.S. plane high in the sky—has purged books of their informative, educational and sacred uses: a transformation of the children’s future. Zahed and Gol-Ghotai rescue a little dog that, in a scene suggesting James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931), is being targeted by a mass of torch-wielding children who want to burn it for being a “foreign dog,” a U.S. invader, a Russian invader, whatever—really, a painful reminder of the childhood that has been ripped from their lives. Everything is ripe for burning. Both of Zahed and Gol-Ghotai’s parents are in separate prisons. A Taliban, their father is being moved to a U.S. prison; his five years’ absence led their mother to remarry, making her in the eyes of the law “a whore.” She pleads with her children to get their father to withdraw the charge against her without revealing the reason for her desperation: it is likely she will be stoned or possibly burned alive for her “crime.”
Sag-haye velgard is the second of three films by Iranian writer-director Marzieh Meshkini. (The Day I Became a Woman (2000))
Stray Dogs
In post-Taliban Kabul, two lost children, brother and sister whose parents are in prison, try to survive every day by scavenging for food. At night, they join their imprisoned mother.
- Year:
- 2004
- Runtime:
- 93 minutes
- Language:
- Persian
- Director:
- Marziyeh Meshkiny
- Screenwriter:
- Marziyeh Meshkiny
- Cast:
- Zahed, Gol-Ghotai, Agheleh Rezaie
- Cinematographer:
- Ebrahim Ghafori, Maysam Makhmalbaf
- Editor:
- Mastane Mohajer
- Production Design:
- Akbar Meshkini