Son of a Lion (2007)

Original title

بپي شير

Directed by

Benjamin Gilmour

Genre

drama film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Pashtun boy in a Pakistani gun-making village wants to attend school instead of following his father into the family firearm business. He struggles to pursue his own path while respecting his traditional community.

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What happens

Son of a Lion is a 2007 Australian-Pakistani drama film set in Darra Adam Khel, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The film tells the story of Niaz Afridi (Niaz Khan Shinwari), a Pashtun boy who wants to go to school instead of carrying on the family business of manufacturing firearms. The director, Benjamin Gilmour, is an Australian former paramedic; Son of a Lion is his first film. It was filmed in the area around Darra with the cooperation of local residents. The actors are local non-professionals and much of the dialogue is improvised. It has received generally positive reviews. The film is in Pashto with English subtitles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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