At Five in the Afternoon

Aroview: Delivering perhaps her most visually poetic, yet dramatically starkest work to date, the dir. of THE APPLE and BLACKBOARDS has a father and daughter traverse the rubble, dust and politics of modernday Afghanistan in search of a missing relative.

Rezaie plays the daughter, also pursuing ambitions of education and empowerment after the American 'liberation' of her country. Grappling with cultural conservatism, religious intolerance and the battered cityscapes of her home, this occasionally points a finger at the West for instigating social chaos, yet ultimately retains its own sense of tragic gravity.

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