A Golden Globe award winner which depicts life under the Taliban in Afghanistan is one of seven narrative features which will be screened in the ‘World Cinema Showcase' at the Bermuda International Film Festival next month.

“Osama”, by director Siddiq Barmak, won a Golden Globe award for ‘Best Foreign Film' last month.

The first feature film to be made in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, “Osama” tells the story of a 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother who lose their jobs when the Taliban close the hospital where they work.

The Taliban have also forbidden women to leave their homes without a “legal companion”.

With her husband and brother dead, the mother disguises her daughter as a boy. “Osama” embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she tries to keep the Taliban from finding out her true identity. The film is due to be released this year by United Artists.

Two films that were honoured at the Cannes Film Festival last year will also be in the showcase.

‘Distant', by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, won the ‘Distant', by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, won the ‘Grand Jury Prize' ‘Grand Jury Prize' at Cannes, tells the story of Mahmut, a successful but isolated professional photographer, and Yusuf, his unemployed cousin, who arrives in Istanbul looking for work. The film “is a sombre but visually glorious meditation on the distance between two reticent men” BIFF said in a press release.

Danish director Christoffer Boe won the “Young Director's Award” at Cannes for his stylish film, ‘Reconstruction', “is a highly stylised film set in Copenhagen, where Alex and Aimee meet, make love, and make plans to reunite”.

“But nothing is what it seems the day after the encounter. Alex races across Copenhagen to reconnect with Aimee, hoping this strange cosmic joke is true love working in mysterious ways,” the press release said.

Other BIFF ‘World Cinema Showcase' films include: ‘Love Me if you Dare', ‘The Green Butchers', ‘Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring', and ‘A Good Lawyer's Wife'.