Filmdependence

A shocking documentary providing a searing insight into the stranglehold of opium in Afghanistan.

Ekhtyar Gol lives in Kabul, his life has become one of sorrow and heroin addiction, but before the war tore through Kabul in in the 1980’s, he held a well paid job as a bodyguard to the country’s president.

Dagen Toordi lives in a remote Turkmen village. She looks after a motherless child in a town were carpet weaving and collecting scrap metal from mines and ammunition are some of the only ways to make a living.

Khoshan lives in an isolated area of Badakhshan with her daughter Shakila. There is no education and hardly any healthcare available, Khoshan resorts to Opium as an antidote to her daily struggles. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel as she is taken to a rehabilitation clinic and given a chance to change her destiny.

Directed by Bahareh Hosseini & Lucy Gordon
Edited by Marta Velasquez
Produced by Lucky Gordon with Equal Access
Commissioned by the British Embassy in Kabul

Upcoming Screenings:

Monday, July 26, 2010, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
at Tricycle Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR
Box office: 020 7328 1000

Screenings:

“The great game: Afghanistan” Film Festival, The Tricycle Cinema 2009
Also screened in Kabul, Washington, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Brussels for the EC Afghanistan Day.

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