Buzkashi Boys

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Movie
Original title Buzkashi Boys
Country of production Afghanistan , USA
original language Dari
Publishing year 2012
length 28 minutes
Rod
Director Sam French
script Sam French,
Martin Roe
production Ariel Nasr
music James Dooley
camera Duraid Munajim
cut Nels Bangerter
occupation

Buzkashi Boys is an Afghan-American short film by Sam French from the year 2012 .

action

Kabul : Rafi, the son of a blacksmith, and the fatherless and homeless street boy Ahmad are friends. One day, Rafi is allowed two hours away from his work of sharpening blades and is taken away by Ahmad. Both look at numerous riders playing buzkaschi . Ahmad thinks he will later become a great buzkashi rider himself. Rafi, on the other hand, knows that, like all men in his family, he will eventually become a blacksmith. Ahmad makes it clear to him that everyone can shape their own future.

Both go to a ruined palace, where Ahmad climbs the roof over an old ladder. The climbing action is too dangerous for Rafi and he stays on the ground, whereupon Ahmad mockingly points out that he will never be a good buzkaschi rider if he doesn't dare to climb. The next morning, Ahmad picks up Rafi: he found a horse on a leash in a garbage dump. He mounts it and rides away. A little later, Rafi finds Ahmad lifeless. He fell from his horse and suffered a fatal head wound. Rafi and his father buried Ahmad in a simple grave. A little later, the father tries to teach Rafi how to hammer a blacksmith, but reacts gruffly when Rafi has problems with it. Rafi leaves, watches the Buzkaschi game and finally climbs the ladder to the ruined roof, from where he calls Ahmad's name. Then he returns to his father. Since his father had once told him that he wanted to teach him the blacksmith's trade, he asked him to do it now. Rafi starts hammering and the father finally praises him for his first attempts.

production

Darul Aman Palace, a location for the film

Buzkashi Boys was filmed in Kabul , especially in the Murad Khane district. The palace ruins are the Darul Aman Palace . When Rafi actor Fawad Mohammadi was discovered for the film, he was a street kid who previously sold city maps to tourists in the market in Kabul. Ahmad actor Jawanmard Paiz, 11 years old at the time of filming, had already gained acting experience before the film, as his father is an actor.

The film ran at the Palm Springs International ShortFest in 2012 .

Awards

Buzkashi Boys won the 2012 Rhode Island International Film Festival Grand Prize for Best Cinematography and was named Best Drama at the LA Shorts Fest. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Film in 2013 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sandra Petersmann : The "Buzkashi Boy" ( Memento from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). tagesschau.de, April 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ Emma Graham-Harrison: Buzkashi Boys shoots for Oscar with tale of Afghan child dreamers . theguardian.com, February 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ HFF Interview: Buzkashi Boys . heartlandfilm.org, October 7, 2012.