Kabuli Kid (L'enfant de Kaboul) 15 years old

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.

Credits

Kabuli Kid Cast

Name Character
Haji Gul Aser as Khaled
Amélie Glenn as Marie
Valéry Schatz He was 34, now 49 years old as Matthieu

Kabuli Kid Crew

Name Department
Olivier Delbosc as Producer. He was 40 (now 55) years old Production
Marc Missonnier as Producer. He was 38 (now 53) years old Production
Barmak Akram as Director. He was 43 (now 58) years old Directing
Barmak Akram as Writer. He was 43 (now 58) years old Writing
Kabuli Kid poster
Kabuli Kid (15 years)

  • Release day: Wednesday, April 29, 2009
  • Runtime: 97 minutes