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An official is sentenced to the gallows for the accidental death of her abusive husband in Afghanistan's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.
Fourteen years after the Golden Globe winner Osama, Afghan cinema has another contender in A Letter to the President, the country's submission to the Academy Awards for its Best Foreign Language Film prize. Through its account of a female official's deadly tussle with detractors at work and at home, Roya Sadat's first feature is a simple yet audacious critique of the patriarchal norms that remain in place more than a decade after the nominal downfall of the Taliban regime.
Having made its bow at the Locarno Film Festival, A Letter to the President has just screened at Busan, where Sadat was a participant in the 2006 Asian Film Academy. Taut and topical, if at times melodramatic, the film should travel well both on its own merits and as part of an emerging crest of female Afghan artists making their voices heard, following Shahrbanoo Sadat's Danish-funded Cannes prize-winner Wolf and Sheep.
Fourteen years after the Golden Globe winner Osama, Afghan cinema has another contender in A Letter to the President, the country's submission to the Academy Awards for its Best Foreign Language Film prize. Through its account of a female official's deadly tussle with detractors at work and at home, Roya Sadat's first feature is a simple yet audacious critique of the patriarchal norms that remain in place more than a decade after the nominal downfall of the Taliban regime.
Having made its bow at the Locarno Film Festival, A Letter to the President has just screened at Busan, where Sadat was a participant in the 2006 Asian Film Academy. Taut and topical, if at times melodramatic, the film should travel well both on its own merits and as part of an emerging crest of female Afghan artists making their voices heard, following Shahrbanoo Sadat's Danish-funded Cannes prize-winner Wolf and Sheep.
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