Earth and Ashes

{{Short description|2004 film}}

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| name = Earth and Ashes

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| director = Atiq Rahimi

| producer = Dimitri de Clercq

| writer = Kambuzia Partovi
Atiq Rahimi

| narrator =

| starring = Abdul Ghani

| music =

| cinematography = Éric Guichard

| editing = Urszula Lesiak

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|2004|05|13|df=y}}

| runtime = 102 minutes

| country = Afghanistan

| language = Dari

| budget =

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Earth and Ashes ({{langx|fa|خاکستر و خاک}}) is a 2004 Afghan film directed and co-written by Atiq Rahimi, based on his book of the same name which was published in 2000. It was Afghanistan's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but was not nominated.{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2004/04.10.22.html |title=50 Countries in Competition for Oscar |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |date=2004-10-22 |accessdate=2008-07-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611123725/http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2004/04.10.22.html |archivedate=June 11, 2007 }}{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/feature/osc_03nominees.html|title=2005 Oscars 77th Academy Awards Nominees|publisher=Yahoo! Movies|date=2005-01-25|accessdate=2008-07-08}} It was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4201869/year/2004.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Earth and Ashes |accessdate=2009-12-02|work=festival-cannes.com}} It won the Golden Dhow award at the 2005 Zanzibar International Film Festival.{{Cite web | title = Festival de Zanzibar : palmarès | publisher = Africultures.com | date = July 2005 | url = http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=murmure&no=2292 | accessdate =2009-10-25 }}