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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #97 Two-Legged Horse

Published on January 28, 2008

#97. Two-Legged Horse

Director: Samira Makhmalbaf()
Writer: Mohsen Makhmalbafhmalbaf
Producers: Samira and Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Distributor: Currently Seeking Distribution

The Gist:
A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.

Fact: You think being a filmmaker is tough? Try being a female director in Afghanistan. Production was halted in late March after a bomb attack on set (!) left six members of the cast and crew and a number of extras injured.

See It: Makhmalbaf family are talented filmmakers working with showstring budgets. Their subject matters deserve our attention.

Release Date/Status?: This is the only non-surprise title that we can guarantee will show at the upcoming Cannes film festival. U.S film festival circuit screenings to follow…perhaps NYFF and TIFF.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).