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MY CHILDHOOD MY COUNTRY

MY CHILDHOOD, MY COUNTRY – 20 YEARS IN AFGHANISTAN

Director: Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi
Documentary featureGB 202190'English subs
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Mir Hussein was only eight years old when Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi started to capture his everyday life on film. Twenty years after being a cheerful Afghan boy living with his family in a cave, he now is a husband and father of three who works as a cameraman himself in Kabul. He tries to remain an optimist, although the security situation steadily declines. This moving long-term documentary shows the real life behind the dramatic but surface-level news coverage.

Director
Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi
Producers
Phil Grabsky, Amanda Wilkie, Jutta Krug
Commissioning Editor
Jutta Krug, Christiane Hinz
Cinematography
Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi
Editing
Clive Mattock
Music
Asa Bennett