Kabuli Kid

Kabuli Kid (2009)

L'enfant de Kaboul

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. Poignant, rich, vibrant, Barmak Akram's debut feature is a remarkable portrait of one man's emotional awakening in a city returning to crazy life after 25 years of violent conflict.

Date of release
2009-04-29
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Drama
Director
Barmak Akram

Casting

Interesting facts

Kabuli Kid is a Persian-language 2008 French-Afghan drama film directed and written by Barmak Akram. It stars Haji Gul Aser, Leena Alam, Valéry Schatz and Amélie Glenn. The film, about a Kabul-based taxi driver who finds an infant left in his back seat, was screened at the 65th Venice International Film Festival at the 23rd International Film Critics' Week and won EIUC Human Rights Film Award. Also, in the Simorghs of the East section - International Cinema Competition of the 27th Fajr International Film Festival, Barmak Akram received Best debut for his film Kabuli Kid. The film is produced by Fidélité Films, 4 à 4 Productions, and Les Auteurs Associés.

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