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
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Documentary by 14-year-old Iranian filmmaker Hana Makhmalbaf, filmed entirely on a small digital camera. The film offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of 'At Five in the Afternoon', the highly-acclaimed Afghanistan-set film made by Makhmalbaf's older sister Samira after the fall of the Taliban regime. The film was screened at the 2003 Venice Film Festival.
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