A moderated discussion with the filmmakers, and footage from their travels in Afghanistan in October and November 2001, follows the film. (Nella terra dei Mujaheddin). "In our dear country, everything has been destroyed," someone mutters sadly in this courageous, utterly disconsolate documentary on Afghanistan, made over one year ago. A group of foreign aid doctors rush to open a hospital in a land "with only one logic: that of total destruction." What follows is a blur of explosions, amputations, and madness; the camera crew follows as these incredible fighting doctors rush from surgery to surgery, capturing in almost casually horrific detail the effects of war. Children with stumps for legs, constant mutilations, the cries of the mortally wounded, and above all the sounds of death: gunfire, tank shells, and screams. "They will always need war to live," someone decries, as a just–healed, one–legged soldier is released, and walks back to the front. The doctors' meetings with Northern Alliance figureheads (including the assassinated Massood) make for fascinating viewing, while the image of the hospital-finally up and running-serves as a moment of hope in a land of total despair. Truly filmmaking on the front lines, Jung won the HRWIFF Nestor Almendros Prize.