Kabuli Kid

Story

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. 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.

Director

Barmak Akram

Writers

Barmak Akram

Language

French

Country

Afghanistan, France

Release date

29 April 2009

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Valéry Schatz

  Matthieu

• 

  Amélie Glenn

  Marie

• Chafi Sahel

  Baba

• Haji Gul Aser

  Khaled

• Mohammad Chafi Sahel

  Baba

• 

  Leena Alam

  Femme de Khaled (as Helena Alam)

• Messi Gul

  Bébé abandonné

• 

  Mustafa Haidari

  Radio Journalist