坎大哈（普什图语/波斯语：قندهار‎），阿富汗第二大城市，位于该国南部，是阿富汗南部的经济、文化、交通中心，也是普什图族聚居的中心城市。

坎大哈建城于公元前4世纪，在很长的时间里都是波斯和印度诸王朝争夺的军事重镇。1747年，艾哈迈德·沙阿·杜兰尼在此称王，建立阿富汗王国，以坎大哈为首都。虽然阿富汗的首都很快便迁往喀布尔，但是坎大哈作为阿富汗南部地区中心的地位自此一直未被动摇。

1995年，塔利班便是从坎大哈突然崛起，几乎一统阿富汗。目前的阿富汗总统卡尔扎伊，也是出身坎大哈的部族首领家庭。


“坎大哈之旅（魔鬼的统治）”
Kandahar is a 2001 Iranian film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, set in Afghanistan during the rule of the Taliban. Its original Persian title is Safar-e Ghandehar, which means "Journey to Kandahar", and it is alternatively known as The Sun Behind the Moon. The film is based on a partly true, partly fictionalized story of a successful Afghan-Canadian, played by Nelofer Pazira, who returns to Afghanistan after receiving a letter from her sister, who was left behind when the family escaped, that she plans on committing suicide on the last solar eclipse of the millennium.

Kandahar was filmed mostly in Iran, including at the Niatak refugee camp,[1] but also secretly in Afghanistan itself[citation needed]. Most people, including Nelofer Pazira, played themselves. The film premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival,[2] but didn't get much attention at first（该电影在2001年5月的戛纳电影节上首映，当时并没引起大众的注意。直到仅仅四个月后，九一一事件发生。。。）. After 9/11, however, it was widely shown. Kandahar won Makhmalbaf the Federico Fellini Prize from UNESCO （直到9/11之后，影片才广为流传。之后，於同一年，位于巴黎的联合国教科文组织为影片授于以意大利著名导演費德里柯·費里尼命名的費德里柯·費里尼奖）in 2001.

电影“坎大哈之旅（魔鬼的统治）”剧情（基于部分真实事件及妮卢弗·帕齐拉的亲身经历，部分虚构故事）
Hidden behind a burqa, Nafas, the sister from Canada, makes her way across the border with a family of refugees. When they are robbed by brigands and the family turns back, she decides to continue on her way, accompanied first by a young boy who was just expelled from a Qur'anic school, and then by an African American convert to Islam, who has become disillusioned with the turn the country has taken under the Taliban.

As the film proceeds, Nafas learns more and more about the hardships women face under the Taliban, and even more so, how years of war have destroyed Afghan society. Her African American guide, hidden behind a false beard, points out to her that the only technological progress allowed in the country is weaponry. As they wander the countryside, Nafas records her impressions into a portable tape recorder hidden beneath her veils. She sees children robbing corpses to survive, people fighting over artificial limbs that they might need in case they walk through a minefield, and doctors who examine female patients from behind a curtain with a hole in it.

When her African American guide turns back, because he is afraid to enter the city of Kandahar, she follows a guide who had just scammed a pair of artificial legs out of the Red Cross. Dressed in burqas, the pair join a wedding party which is stopped by the Taliban because they are playing musical instruments and singing--forbidden by Afghan law. Her guide is unveiled and taken away. Nafas is cleared by the Taliban patrol to continue, along with other members of the wedding party. In the end, Nafas is within sight of Kandahar at sunset.