written and directed by Beata Dzianowicz director of photography Jacek Petrycki
Awards:
- Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Festival 2008 (Estonia) - Film Critics Magazine Award
- Media Festival in Łódź, "Man in Danger", 2008 - Łódź Art Centre Award
- Film Festival WATCH DOCS Human Rights in Film, Warsaw 2008 - Audience Award
- Dialektus European Documentary and Anthropological Film Festival, Budapest 2009 - Special Mention and Audience Award
- International Film Festival "Crossroads of Europe", Lublin 2009 - Second Award
‘Kites' depicts everyday life in contemporary Kabul from the point of view of an Afghan seventeen-year-old. Jacek Petrycki's camera follows the path taken by the students: starting with their feverish attempts to shoot the rushing wheels of a rickshaw up till the moment when the camera stops being just a toy but becomes a tool...
Translated by Monika Miziniak | Edited by Patricia Koza
