''Earth and Ashes'' ( fa, خاکستر و خاک) is a 2004

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film directed by

Atiq Rahimi Atiq Rahimi ( fa, عتیق رحیمی) (born 26 February 1962 in Kabul) is a French-Afghan writer and filmmaker. Life Atiq Rahimi was born in 1962 in Kabul to a senior public servant and attended high school in Lycée Esteqlal. Following the So ...

, based on his book of the same name which was published in 2000. It was Afghanistan's submission to the

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for the

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but was not nominated. It was also screened in the

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section at the

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. It won the Golden Dhow award at the 2005

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Cast

* Abdul Ghani - Dastaguir * Jawan Mard Homayoun - Yassin * Kader Arefi - Fateh * Guilda Chahverdi - Zaynab * Walli Tallosh - Mirza Qadir * Malik Akhlaqi - Malik Khan

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* 2004 films Dari-language films Films directed by Atiq Rahimi Films shot in Afghanistan Films set in Afghanistan 2004 drama films Afghan drama films {{Afghanistan-film-stub

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