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Mina Walking (2015)

Mina Walking poster
Directed by
Yosef Baraki
Genre
drama film
Country
Afghanistan, Canada
Runtime
1h 50m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A 12-year-old girl named Mina sells goods on the streets of Kabul to support her family. She struggles to keep going to school while her family pressures her to earn money.

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What happens

Mina Walking is a 2015 Canadian-Afghani Dari-language drama film written and directed by Yosef Baraki. It was screened in the Generation 14+ section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where it competed for the Crystal Bear. The film follows a 12-year-old Afghan street seller named Mina as she tries to balance her education with her responsibility as the main breadwinner of the family. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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