Project Detail

Last Song from Kabul

Synopsis

The heroic story of young orphaned girls whose music school was closed after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, as they escape to Portugal to try and rebuild their fractured lives and begin to play music again.
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

Details

Year
2023
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
34 min
Director
Kevin Macdonald, Ruhi Hamid
Producer
Katie Buchanan, Sophie Daniel
Executive Producer
Nina L. Diaz, Lawrence Elman, Liza Burnett Fefferman, Nick Fraser, Duncan Heath, Marissa Heringer, Francis Hopkinson, Jessica Lustig, Sheila Nevins, Ahmad Sarmast
Editor
Sam Rice-Edwards
Director of Photography
Petra Graf, Magda Kowalczyk, Maha Zahra
Composer
Tom Hodge

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Production Status

Production Company

UK, Germany, Portugal, Qatar, Afghanistan co-production

Docsville Studios

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