Kandahar

416 votes and 10 Reviews

Rotten Tomatoes® Score
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Release Date: October 26, 2001

On DVD/VOD: May 14, 2003

1h 25m | Drama

Nafas, a young Afghan refugee living in Canada, receives a letter from her younger sister back in Kandahar, Afganistan, who threatens to kill herself during the next solar eclipse. She manages to reach Iran and disguises herself as a veiled peasant. With the assistance of a boy she meets in a cemetery, she crosses war-ravaged, mine-strewn wastelands and must deal with illness, bandits and border guards in order to reach her town and save her sister before the next eclipse.