Kabuli Kid
Promotional poster
Directed by	Barmak Akram
Written by	Barmak Akram
Produced by	Olivier Delbosc David Mathieu-Mahias Marc Missonnier Mani Mortazavi
Starring	Haji Gul Aser Leena Alam Valéry Schatz Amélie Glenn
Cinematography	Laurent Fleutot
Edited by	Hervé de Luze Elise Fievet Pierre Haberer
Music by	Barmak Akram
Release date	29 April 2009 (2009-04-29) (France)
Running time	97 minutes
Countries	France Afghanistan
Language	Persian

Kabuli Kid is a 2008 French-Afghan drama film directed by Barmak Akram. It stars Haji Gul Aser, Leena Alam, Valéry Schatz and Amélie Glenn. The film, about a Kabul-based taxi driver who finds an infant left in his back seat, was screened at the 65th Venice International Film Festival at the 23rd International Film Critics' Week and won EIUC Human Rights Film Award. It was produced by Fidélité Films, 4 à 4 Productions, and Les Auteurs Associés.

Cast

• Haji Gul Aser as Khaled
• Valéry Schatz as Mathieu
• Amélie Glenn as Marie
• Mohammad Chafi Sahel as Baba
• Leena Alam as Khaled's wife
• Messi Gul as the abandoned infant
• Saleha Khan Gul
• Rohina Gul
• Mariam Hakimi

Reception

The film was critically acclaimed. Variety wrote: "Observation and narrative are so skillfully intertwined that every detail gestates a potential full-blown story and every story point teems with cultural contradictions. Thus, when Khaled’s wife Leena Alam slips among the veiled women waiting to claim the infant, she silently unleashes a subversively alternate point of view. Highly accomplished tech credits reinforce pic's authenticity."^[1]