In post-Taliban Kabul, two lost children, brother and sister whose parents are in prison, try to survive every day by scavenging for food. At night, they join their imprisoned mother.
Direction
Meshkiny's documentary-realist approach blurs fiction and lived trauma.
Acting
Non-professional children deliver devastating naturalism.
Cinematography
Kabul's rubble becomes character — beautiful and brutal.
Director
Marziyeh Meshkiny
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Afghanistan's fragile 2003 reconstruction; real Kabul locations, real rubble, real danger.
Director Marziyeh Meshkiny was banned from filmmaking in Iran; this was her act of cinematic exile.
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