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Status
Released
Release
2004
Runtime
1h 23m
Streaming availability by country
"To save her family a girl must become a boy"
After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
22 Cast Members
Marina Golbahari
Osama
Arif Herati
Aspnadi
Zubaida Sahar
Mother
Mohammad Nadir Khwaja
Mullah
Nader Khwaja
Jadi
Malik Akhlaqi
Ajmal
Hamida Refar
Grandmother
Gol Rahman Ghorbandi
Mohammad Nabi Nawa
Mohammad Nabi Nawa
Milk Man
Amin Nadem
Son of Sick Old Man
Eli Jaan
Sick Old Man
Elza Bogova
Foreign Female
Gholaam Sekhi Sedighi
Poor Man
Henry Jordan
Male Foreign Reporter
Najibeh Hamdard
Mullah's Wife
Nahid Refaah
Mullah's Wife
Bibi Khan Anaa
Mullah's Wife
Navaab Khan
Judge
Moalem Khan
Spokesperson of the Jugge
Zin Aldin
School Teacher
