My thanks to

Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens

Christiane Thiollier

Emmanuelle Dunoyer

Marianne Denicourt

Laurent Maréchaux

Soraya Nouri

Sabrina Nouri

Rahima Katil

for their support and their poetic gaze

Atiq Rahimi

ATIQ RAHIMI was born in Afghanistan in 1962, but fled to France in 1984. There he has become renowned as a maker of documentary and feature films, and as a writer. The film Earth and Ashes was in the official selection at Cannes in 2004 and won a number of prizes. He is currently adapting A Thousand Rooms of Dreams and Fear for the screen. Since 2001 Rahimi has returned to Afghanistan a number of times to set up a writers’ house in Kabul and offer support and training to young Afghan writers and film-makers. He lives in Paris.