Young and talented Iranian director Teymour Ghaderi brings to our attention a small community in the remote Province of Sistan and Baluchestan, in the southeast of Iran, to tell us a moral fable in disguise, in his 8-minute documentary “Gando”.
“Gando” is screening at Life After Oil International Film Festival
“Gando” is narrated by its very own protagonist, Hawa, a 9-year-old girl who abruptly asks us if we’ve ever considered how hard it would be to live without a right hand. She has lost half of her right arm in circumstances that will be revealed later. Nevertheless, life goes on, the village teacher will train her to write with her left hand and she has already adapted to the playground life, climbing palm trees with the boys and applying nail varnish with contortionist skills. Her village – Hawa explains – is very dry and the girls need to go to collect...
“Gando” is screening at Life After Oil International Film Festival
“Gando” is narrated by its very own protagonist, Hawa, a 9-year-old girl who abruptly asks us if we’ve ever considered how hard it would be to live without a right hand. She has lost half of her right arm in circumstances that will be revealed later. Nevertheless, life goes on, the village teacher will train her to write with her left hand and she has already adapted to the playground life, climbing palm trees with the boys and applying nail varnish with contortionist skills. Her village – Hawa explains – is very dry and the girls need to go to collect...
- 9/27/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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