When Pomegranates Howl
Vaght-e Chigh-e Anar
Iranian Independents
VERDICT: With sensitivity and devastating last-scene irony, filmmaker and poet Granaz Moussavi cinematically embeds the viewer in children’s lives in the heart of war-torn Kabul, in Australia’s Oscar hopeful.
For most of us, everything we know about Afghanistan’s war with the Taliban is filtered through th