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Direction
Meshkiny's documentary-realist approach blurs fiction and lived trauma.
Acting
Non-professional children deliver devastating naturalism.
Cinematography
Kabul's rubble becomes character — beautiful and brutal.

Director
Marziyeh Meshkiny
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