Script : Shahrbanoo Sadat based on the unreleased diary of Anwar Hashimi
Cinematographer : Virginie Surdej
Editing : Alexandra Strauss
Sound : Sigrid DPA Jensen, Anne Gry Friis Kristensen
Music : Niaz Diasamidze
Cast : Qodratollah Qadiri, Sediqa Rasuli, Masihullah Feraji, Hasibullah Rasooli, Ahmad Fayaz Omani, Anwar Hashimi
Production : Adomeit Film ApS, La Fabrica Nocturna
Year : 2019
Diffusion : 2022
DCP, Color, 60 mn, OV dari, russian, hindi, urdu with french subtitles
In Kabul at the end of the 1980s, smart young Qodrat earns a living dealing in the resale of cinema tickets and in that way can go and watch his favourite Bollywood films. After the police catch up with him, he finds himself in the orphanage where he imagines himself as the hero of his cult films, fighting beside his new-found friends against the rebel invasion threatening them. His past goes back through the history of Afghanistan over the last 40 years, seen through the eyes of a young, innocent orphan. It’s the story of a child caught up in a war he did not belong to. That is exactly what I feel today as a person living in Afghanistan... You cannot put the pre- sent into question without knowing about the past. There are plenty of films about Afghanistan today and I’d bet that the whole world knows that there is conflict over there. What I am interested in is burrowing into the past and going back to the source of the conflict.” Shahrbanoo Sadat
