Kabuli Kid
NB! Screening on Friday 18th Sep at 2pm has moved from Kinopalatsi 7 -> 6
Screening on Monday 21st Sep at 2pm has moved from Kinopalatsi 8 -> 6
Screening on Tuesday 22nd Sep at 12pm has moved from Kinopalatsi 8 -> 6
Screening on Wednesday 23rd Sep at 10.30pm at Kesäkino Engel is cancelled. L&A apologizes for the inconvenience. Substitutive screening: Revanche.
A Kabuli taxi driver’s discovery of a swaddled infant in the backseat of his cab ignites a series of seriocomic reactions that paint a complex portrait of the cabbie, his city and his culture in ”Kabuli Kid”, Afghan helmer Barmak Akram’s first foray into fiction. ... This engaging, funny and quietly disturbing vision of a nation much in the news ... Francebased helmer Akram fashioned his script with the help of Jean-Claude Carriere, and the plot adroitly plunges the viewer into situational dynamics that only gradually reveal themselves in all their ethnological complexity. At fi rst, Khaled registers a stereotypical Arab patriarch. Though quick to chastise a female passenger for still wearing a burka, Khaled makes sure his wife doesn’t leave home without one. With his daughters, though not unkind, he appears distant and authoritarian. ... Highly accomplished tech credits reinforce pic’s authenticity.
– RONNIE SCHEIB, VARIETYDuration: 94 min
Dialogue: Persian
Subtitles: English
