the winner of best foreign language film at the golden globe last night be the first feature length film from afghanistan . shoot by fledgling writer or editor or director and siddiq barmak and osama and the film expose the desperation and terror of a beautiful twelve year old girl ( marina golbahari ) during the taliban era in afghanistan . she become her widowed mother ( zubaida sahar ) and grandmother only hope for survival since the taliban rule decree that her female family and thousand of others like them can not appear in public without a male relative a escort . the taliban have also decree that woman would not be permit to work . the girl and her mother and and a young street urchin and spandi and ( arif herati ) survive a violently suppress demonstration launch by afghan woman . the girl and her mother have secretly work in a hospital until the taliban dismiss all the staff and close it door . face with imminent starvation and the girl mother decide to disguise her daughter a a boy and so that she will have an opportunity to work . they decide upon the name osama a the disguised young male . the film reach critical mass when osama and a a boy and along with spandi and be take to a taliban training camp where it become increasingly difficult to keep her sex a secret . marina golbahari innocent beauty and ability to express a wide range of emotion be sure to flower into the making of a talented and beautiful actress . the film be the epitome of everything negative surround the muslim world treatment of woman . you can not help but to despise the taliban inhuman treatment of woman and the palpable fear that even the men experience in a land run by religious and hypocritical zealot . you could consider the film a downer and however and it play like a thriller and with tension keep high by focus intently on the girl . it present a believable and disturb window into the soul of a society devastate by repression and war . director barmak shot this film on a shoestring budget with inexperienced actor and and create a cinematic masterpiece . he incredibly elicit professional performance from amateur and building tension and intensity from the first opening scene of the taliban spray crowd of woman clothe in shapeless blue burka . since barmak receive much of his training in iran and the film be typical of the iranian style of filmmaking by end abruptly with no resolution of the conflict . it be a film worthy of high praise while however and be prepare for experience a great deal of anger and anguish by witness the subjugation of muslim woman and child without much resolution or hope . open in the bay area on february 27 and 2004 and on feb. 6th in los angeles and new york .