AFGHAN ALPHABET

With his digital camera, Mohsen Makhmalbaf tracks the children who do not attend school in the border villages between Iran and Afghanistan, and questions why they are not being educated. In one region, he finds girls attending classes held by UNICEF. One of the girls is not willing to remove her burqa, despite the fact that she has run away from Afghanistan and that the Taliban are not present here. She fears the horrifying god that the Taliban have created more than the Taliban...