Sabrina Nouri
Rahima Katil.
for their support
and their poetic gaze.
ATIQ RAHIMI was born in Afghanistan in 1962, but fled to France in 1984. There he has become renowned as a maker of doc.u.mentary and feature films, and as a writer. The film Earth and Ashes was in the official selection at Cannes in 2004 and won a number of prizes. He is currently adapting A Thousand Rooms of Dreams and Fear for the screen. Since 2001 Rahimi has returned to Afghanistan a number of times to set up a writers" house in Kabul and offer support and training to young Afghan writers and film-makers. He lives in Paris.
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