This is a film about fate and free will, a wrongly accused man meets his executioners. The condemned, Fahran, insists that he’s innocent, but fails to convince his Taliban captors. Set in the Eastern mountains of Afghanistan.

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http://www.magicalrealism.us/2014/05/12/rumours-of-fahran-in-afghanistan/ screenplay by Lee A. Miller Easter frontier of the Afghanistan, 2002. This is a film about fate and free will, a wrongly accused man meets his executioners. The condemned, Fahran, insists that he’s innocent, but fails to convince his would-be exterminators, Houshmand and Omaid. It’s Afghanistan, and the men are traveling over a mountain to a place of execution. This is a time and a place in which good and evil appear as unambiguous as the American occupiers and Taliban fighters are creeping through the rocks. The first swerve into the unexpected occurs when Fahran and the other men agree on a site to carry out his sentence. A sudden gunfight erupts, leaving Houshmand wounded and Omaid missing. Left alone with one of his would-be executioners, Fahran cares for, and then literally carries Houshmand, shouldering him and the story’s moral burden. The world and its choices are often cruel, but for all the devastations visited on the characters, I’m searching for the human good amid a human catastrophe. I want a stunning opening scene — a probing sweep around Afghanistan — like tableau of people, shelters, dogs, rocks and mud — puts that search into cinematic terms and also telegraphs the narrative’s circular form. The Paktia region is under American/NATO occupation, and local Taliban are fighting a brutal resistance campaign. A bridge is collapsed with an American convoy on it, not far from the village, where Fahran, a goat herder, lives with his family. Innocent Fahran is arrested with a group of Taliban, but the American officer makes a decision not to send him to prison with the others and sets him free. Rumours of Fahran’s alliance with the American’s spread quickly, and Taliban Houshmand and Omaid arrive from the mountain’s to execute Fahran. As the Taliban lead their victim through the mountains, they are ambushed by the Americans, and Fahran finds himself one-to-one with his wounded enemy. High in the mountains, where there are neither friends nor enemies, and where the line between treason and heroism disappears, Fahran is forced to make a moral choice under immoral circumstances. The American patrols kill Houshmand and then finally Omaid. Fahran is left on a mountain on the border and must chose to return to his home, wife and family or he can escape into Pakistan.

RUMOURS OF FAHRAN AND THE TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN

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