"Director: Hana Makhmalbaf"

• Joy Of Madness | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Joy of Madness is the first feature film by 14-year-old Hana Makhmalbaf. Shot on digital video the film follows Hana's older sister Samira as she makes her latest film At Five in the Afternoon in war scarred Kabul. Brilliantly capturing the many challenges that a film-maker faces offers an intimate and illuminating portrait of a remarkable film-maker triumphing over great adversity. More than this though the film offers an uncompromising provocative and sometimes blackly funn

• Buddha collapsed out of shame | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Amidst the wreckage beneath the ruined statue of the Buddha thousands of families struggle to survive. Baktay a six-year-old Afghan girl is challenged to go to school by her neighbour's son who reads in front of their cave. Having found the money to buy a precious notebook and taking her mother's lipstick for a pencil Baktay sets out. On her way she is harassed by boys playing games that mimic the terrible violence they have witnessed that has always surrounded them. The boys want to stone the little girl to blow her up as the Taliban blew up the Buddha to shoot her like Americans. Will Baktay be able to escape these violent war games and reach the school?