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DOCUMENTARIESMY AFGHANISTAN – LIFE IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONEd. Nagieb Khaja, Denmark, Norway,23 JULY 22:30 SUNCOAST A; 24 JULY 13:00 BLUE2012Danish/Afghan filmmaker Nagieb Khaja journeys to Kabul, taking with him a sports bagfull of video cameras on a mission that soon reveals itself to be far more difficult thananticipated. Nagieb’s goal is to document the ‘real’ Afghanistan. He smuggles the camerasout of the protected district which shields international journalists from the lives of theordinary civilian population and makes his way to the villages, where the inhabitantsbegin documenting their own lives. The result is a deeply authentic image of life in thebattered country. African Premiere.Danish and Pashto with English subtitles, 86 minNO BURQAS BEHIND BARSd. Nima Sarvestani, Sweden, 201223 JULY 14:30 BLUE; 26 JULY 20:15 SNEDDON;28 JULY 14:00 SNEDDONAfghan woman Sima was married at ten, and bore five children before she was twenty toan abusive husband who had already murdered another of his wives and their child. Herpunishment for fleeing? Fifteen years, along with her children, in the appalling TakharPrison in which four cells house forty women and their children. This is one of the mostrestrictive environments in the world, but here, they also need not wear the burqas thatordinarily covers Afghan women from head to toe. With nothing left to lose, we begin tosee the unique identities of strong women who would be faceless and voiceless in theirdaily lives outside. African Premiere.Dari with English subtitles, 77 minNORMAN CATHERINE CURRICULUM VITAE19 JULY 12:00 BLUE; 23 JULY 15:30 EKHAYA;d. Paulene Abrey, South Africa, 201228 JULY 18:00 EKHAYANorman Catherine Curriculum Vitae is a mix of ghoulish animation, live action and stockfootage used to bring to life the canvas of the artist’s young life. Coloured by vividimagination and a uniquely offbeat style, the film illustrates events from his formative years– such as swallowing mothballs thinking they were sweets – against a backdrop of SouthAfrican and world events. Intriguing and humourous, this is a complicated film about acomplicated man. World Premiere.English, 12 min86 34th Durban International Film Festival