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| | Diaspora Film Festival: Programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26) |
 | | The Crossing; Nora Hoppe with Behrouz Vossoughi, Canada, Belgium/Netherlands, 2002, 91 min. |
 | | Babak fled his native country, Afghanistan, almost 20 years ago and came to live in Brussels where he sought to forget his past, his family, his craft as a gifted calligrapher and his homeland. |
 | | The theme song, 'Beshnauw az Nai' ('Listen to the Reed', part of the opus 'Mathnawi') which was written by the great Persian poet Maulana Djaluddin Mohammad Mowlavi (Rumi) in the 13th century, deals with the pain of separation, as told by the reed flute that was cut from its stalk. |
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