Kabuli Kid
A woman in a light-blue chadri abandons her infant in the backseat of a cab in the bustling streets of post-war Kabul. Kabul - a city struggling to recover from 25 years of warfare. Taxi driver Khaled…
Kabuli Kid
A woman in a light-blue chadri abandons her infant in the backseat of a cab in the bustling streets of post-war Kabul. 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. "CENTRO DO BRAZIL in Afghanistan." —Fidélité Films In post-Taliban Kabul, Khaled is a struggling everyman who tries to make ends meet as a cab driver in the rubbles of his battered and war-bruised city. When one day, in complete disbelief, Khaled will realise that his last customer, a mother in a light-blue chadri carrying her swaddled newborn, has left her baby boy deliberately in the backseat of his cab, panic will ensue. Still incredulous, yet desperate, Khaled will begin a frantic adventure throughout the chaotic city, in search for the fully-veiled woman who abandoned her infant, however, she is nowhere to be found and he will soon need to attend to the baby's needs. Now that Khaled's world has been turned upside down, will he still be able to find the heartless mother? —Nick Riganas
Kabuli Kid
Drama
Film Details
A woman in a light-blue chadri abandons her infant in the backseat of a cab in the bustling streets of post-war Kabul. 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. "CENTRO DO BRAZIL in Afghanistan." —Fidélité Films In post-Taliban Kabul, Khaled is a struggling everyman who tries to make ends meet as a cab driver in the rubbles of his battered and war-bruised city. When one day, in complete disbelief, Khaled will realise that his last customer, a mother in a light-blue chadri carrying her swaddled newborn, has left her baby boy deliberately in the backseat of his cab, panic will ensue.
Still incredulous, yet desperate, Khaled will begin a frantic adventure throughout the chaotic city, in search for the fully-veiled woman who abandoned her infant, however, she is nowhere to be found and he will soon need to attend to the baby's needs. Now that Khaled's world has been turned upside down, will he still be able to find the heartless mother? —Nick Riganas.