The Giant Buddhas (2005)

Directors

Christian Frei

Cast

Nelofer Pazira

The story

The film examines the destruction of two giant Buddha statues in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley six months before the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and uses the event to explore extremism, tolerance, identity, and the ways people and cultures are both divided and connected.

Genres

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