Buddha Collapses Out of Shame

When a tenacious, 6-year-old Afghan girl (Nikbakht Noruz) desperately tries to sell eggs so that she can buy school supplies and learn the alphabet in school like the taunting son (Abbas Aliyome) of her neighbor amidst the backdrop of war-ravaged, Buddha-empty cliffs in this moving, heartbreaking 2007 Hana Makhmalbaf film, she finds herself a victim of strict, archaic religious rules and hurtful boys playing dangerous war games.
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