Library to screen ‘Osama’

The Sisters Library will screen the first Afghan film to be made since the end of the Taliban regime on Tuesday April 19 at 6 p.m., sponsored by the Friends of the Sisters Library.

This program is part of the Novel Idea … Read Together community reading project offered by Deschutes Public Library.

Directed by Siddiq Barmak, “Osama” delivers the emotional tale Barmak read about while exiled in Pakistan. The movie relates the story of a 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother. Both lose their jobs when the Taliban close the hospital where they work and with her father and brother dead, there is no one left to support the family.

Without being able to leave the house, the mother is left with nowhere to turn. To protect the two of them, the mother disguises her daughter as a boy called Osama. The girl embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she tries to keep the Taliban from finding out her true identity.

During the months of April and May, the library will host a variety of events in support of the Novel Idea … Read Together project. The programs are designed to give residents of Deschutes County a glimpse into the culture, history and people of Afghanistan.

Much of “The Kite Runner,” this year’s selected novel by Khaled Hoseini, is set in the author’s native country, Afghanistan.

For a complete listing of Novel Idea programs, visit http://www.dpls.us or call 312-1032.