Word: makhmalbaf
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Three of the winners came from Iran's burgeoning cinema. Hassan Yektapanah's "Djomeh" and Bahman Ghobadi's "A Time from Drunken Horses" shared the Camera d'Or for best first film. And Samira Makhmalbaf received a Jury Prize for "Blackboards," a potent minimalist epic about itinerant Kurdish teachers. Makhmalbaf is a rare creature: a woman filmmaker in the fundamentalist Islamic republic and, at 20, the youngest director to win a prize at Cannes. Makhmalbaf said she accepted the award "on behalf of the young, new generation of hope in my homeland - to honor the heroic affairs of those...
...Makhmalbaf shared the Jury prize with Sweden's Roy Andersson, whose "Songs from the Second Floor" is a handsomely shot series of tragicomic tableaux and trompes l'oeil. The screenplay award went to Neil LaBute's "Nurse Betty," with Renee Zellweger as a young widow propelled by shock into a soap-opera world...
...Apple told through pictures and parables what it could not have explicitly voiced aloud in a nation still silenced by censors. Produced by 17-year-old director Samira Makhmalbaf, The Apple suggested to the young masses of Iran--youth born after 1979 now comprise over two-thirds of Iran's population--that their generation must find a way to unlock the doors that muffle their voices...