KABUL TRANSIT [trailer]
85 minutes, 2006
Dari, Pashto, English, French and Russian w/English subtitles
In the broken cityscape of Kabul Afghanistan, amid the dust and rubble of war,
Westerners and Afghans adjust to the uncertain possibilities of peace. Kabul Transit
shuttles through the broken streets of the city, moving between public space and private,
listening in on conversations, posing questions, probing the darker alleys mainstream
media avoids. The result is a unique cinematic experience – a shifting mosaic of
encounters and raconteurs, captured glances and telling gestures, all beautifully shot
and woven together by the music and the found sounds of a city sluggishly coming to
life. Rejecting the usual device of narration and portraiture, the film asks the viewer to
experience Kabul as a newly arrived visitor would – with a freshness born of
apprehension on finding oneself in a place that is at once hauntingly strange and
altogether familiar.
"Spare, unsentimental and uncompromising...Kabul Transit is a picture of a city in fragments, without intro, commentary or visual aid. Lensing under arduous conditions is superb, lending the pic a big-screen presence."
Robert Koehler
VARIETY
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http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Kabul-Transit/70149658
PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY
David Edwards, Maliha Zulfacar & Gregory Whitmore
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Gregory Whitmore
EDITOR
Gregory Whitmore
SOUND MIXING
Bill Seery - Mercer Media
PRODUCTION
Akbar Taxiwan Pictures, LLC