Kabul: City in the Wind | Dir. Aboozar Amini | 2018, 1hr 28m
In the documentary Kabul: City in the Wind, twelve-year old Afshin and his younger brother Benjamin live with their family on the hillside of the Chil Dokhtaran mountains. They have grown up next to the city, full of bombs and sirens. Violence has been part of their lives; the graveyard their playground. When their father Abbas leaves for another country, Afshin’s childhood comes to an end. Abbas is a bus driver with a double personality: a loving father and a ruthless driver. His multiple tempts to fix his broken bus reveals his way of living between truth and lies. The characters’ stories intermingle to create a symphonic portrait of the Kabul, as a city in agony.
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Born in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, in 1985, Aboozar Amini moved to the Netherlands as a child. He did his BA at Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam, where his graduation film Kabul Tehran Kabul (2010) won the Dutch Film Fund’s Wildcard award. He did his MA at London Film School, where his graduation film Angelus Novus (2015) was inspired by the Paul Klee drawing. His subsequent films include Where is Kurdistan? (2016) and Best Day Ever (2018). He is currently developing his first feature, The Cineaste. He lives in Kabul and Amsterdam.
