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Section: International competition of feature films for youth
Mina Walking (2015)
Though women are no longer prisoners in their homes after the ouster of the Taliban, the country’s destabilization after years of war in Afghanistan have reduced education to a privilege. For children like Mina this means the responsibility to work in order to support her family, thus she wanders Kabul’s streets selling cheap trinkets to get enough money to feed her Alzheimer stricken grandfather and her heroin addicted father. Her father forbids her to attend school, but she secretly attends classes. And this decision to secretly educate herself sets in motion a chain of events that change her life forever.
| Country | Afghanistan, Canada |
|---|---|
| Year | 2015 |
| Duration | 125 min |
| Rating | 15 |
| Language | Dari |
| Subtitle | English, Czech |
| Directed by | Yosef Baraki |
| Screenplay | Yosef Baraki |
| Director of Photography | Yosef Baraki |
| Music | Vaheed Kaacemy |
| Edited by | Yosef Baraki, Andrew Korogyi |
| Contact | Baraki Film |
Biography
Yosef Baraki (1989) is a Canadian screenwriter and director of Afghan/Slovak origin. He studied film science and production at York University and at Humber College in Toronto. During his studies he shot several short films, e.g. The Fall of Democracy (2010) and Teresa’s Tummy (2011). His graduation film The Candidate (Der Kandidat, 2012) was awarded internationally. He's making his feature-film debut with Mina Walking (2015).