Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

Fri 1 May 2009 – Sun 10 May 2009

Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (PG) 77 mins
Dir. Hana Makhmalbaf
Baktay is a six year old girl who, after seeing a boy reading a book, becomes determined to go to school. Selling eggs to raise money for a notebook and using her mother’s lipstick as a writing implement she sets off, only to be terrorized by a gang of boys pretending to be the Taliban.