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1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Mir Hussein |
| Event |
Originally produced by Seventh Art Productions in 2021. |
| Summary |
Award-winning filmmakers Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi release a real-life epic of boyhood and manhood – they follow Mir and his familyfilmed across twenty years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe. They form a portrait of embattled Afghanistan that no other film has ever captured. War, politics, poverty, and heartbreak – all seen from the level of a child frolicking in a muddy, bullet-laden pool, playing soccer on a dirt pitch, and forgoing school to work ploughing in the fields, collecting wood from mountain tops, or digging coal in perilous mines, all at subsistence wages to support his family. The innocence and optimism of Mir contrasts with carefully selected contemporary news footage that also offers sobering comments of leading soldiers, politicians, and journalists offering their own insights into what is going wrong and what is going right. After more than a trillion dollars spent by 40 countries, and countless lives lost, was the cost worth it – for Mir and the world? The film lets the viewer decide. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Ethnicity.
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History.
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Middle East.
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Sociology.
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Documentary films.
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Foreign study.
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Social sciences.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Grabsky, Phil, film director.
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Shoarifi, Shoaib, film director.
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Hussein, Mir, actor.
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Seventh Art Productions (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
14267629 Kanopy |
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