KABULI KID
by Barmak Akram
synopsis
Kabul - a city struggling to recover from 25 years of warfare. Taxi driver Khaled picks up a woman and baby. Her face is hidden behind a blue burka. They settle on a price, she pays him and they drive off. The taxi arrives at its destination. The woman gets out and a new passenger climbs in... to find the baby still in the backseat. Khaled leaps out after the woman but she's vanished. He's left holding the baby - a 6-month-old boy. Who is the mother? How can he find her? He asks friends and strangers in the street. He returns to where he picked her up. Nothing. Fate has handed him a young life for which he feels more and more responsible. An eventful, chaotic, often highly comic journey through a city which is itself simply trying to survive.
international title: | Kabuli Kid |
original title: | Kabuli Kid |
country: | France, Afghanistan |
sales agent: | Goodfellas |
year: | 2008 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Barmak Akram |
film run: | 97' |
release date: | FR 29/04/2009 |
screenplay: | Barmak Akram |
cast: | Hadji Gul, Valery Shatz, Amélie Glenn, Mohammad Chafi Sahel, Helena Alam, Messi Gu |
cinematography by: | Laurent Fleutot |
film editing: | Hervé de Luze, Pierre Haberer, Elise Fievet |
music: | Barmak Akram |
producer: | Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier |
production: | Fidélité Films |
distributor: | Wild Bunch Distribution |