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Kabuli Kid

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Synopsis

A beleaguered cab driver finds a baby in his backseat and becomes obsessed with finding either its mother or a new home for it in this captivating urban road movie set in a war-ravaged Kabul.

Review

In a post-Taliban, post-U.S.-invasion Afghanistan, the bomb-plagued, impoverished, jittery city of Kabul is just beginning to come back to life. Khaled is a taxi driver who reluctantly picks up a burka-wearing young woman carrying a baby. When she purposefully leaves her baby behind, the driver —- a father of four girls himself —- is forced into a chaotic urban odyssey in a frantic (and at times comic) attempt to find the mother or at least a home for the child. He goes to the police, meets some French people who may be of assistance, tries to unload the infant at an orphanage, visits a radio station and even takes the baby home for a night. Gently humorous, life-affirming and warm-hearted, this neo-realistic film wonderfully captures the life of a city and its people. Filmed primarily with non-professional actors, Kabuli kid has an authenticity rarely found in fiction films.

-- Raymond Murray