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2004 Certificate 12
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A thoughtful and emotionally challenging look at the lives of two children living in modern day Afghanistan, STRAY DOGS lifts the lid on what it is like living in the country, post-Taliban. The film focuses on a young brother and sister who are forced to share their incarcerated mother's prison cell by night, but roam the .. Read more

Starring Agheleh Rezaie
Director Marziyeh Meshkini
Genres Drama

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Stray Dogs

A thoughtful and emotionally challenging look at the lives of two children living in modern day Afghanistan, STRAY DOGS lifts the lid on what it is like living in the country, post-Taliban. The film focuses on a young brother and sister who are forced to share their incarcerated mother's prison cell by night, but roam the streets during the day. For they are homeless; only allowed to stay within the prison’s confines after dark, the children are not permitted there during the day. Fed up with having to fend for themselves, and in a desperate bid to get locked up on a more permanent basis, the siblings concoct a cunning plan; using American cinema as a guide, they begin to perform robberies on the streets of Kabul.

Starring Agheleh Rezaie
Director Marziyeh Meshkini
Studio ARTIFICIAL EYE
Run time DVD: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate Certificate 12
Genres Drama
Language DVD: Farsi
Subtitles DVD: English
Released DVD: 04 Dec 2006
Production year: 2004
Format DVD

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Compelling thought-provoking and sadly rewarding

    The plight of small children as the casualties of the aftermath of violent conflict in modern day Afghanistan

    A subject not really covered by the glossy Hollywood machine.

    This film follows the sad life balance between loyalty to an imprisoned mother and the pleading with with an imprisoned taliban father.

    What is striking is the day to day shuffling, begging confusion of the two children and a stray dog.

    It's gritty realism with a heart, often bordering on the surreal, but ultimately painful, as most 'real' situations like this must be.

    An apparently simply told story, with a complex and thought-provoking effect.

    I thought about this film for days after I saw it.

    Watch this.

      • A customer from Stone, Staffs
      • Posted 02 Feb 2007 12:43

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  • 3 out of 7 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars

    Tedious

    A very disappointing film.

    Brutal, harrowing, dire and above all boring.

    Hardly any storyline and nothing to keep you interested throughout.

    A complete waste of time.

    I would strongly recommend the following foreign films...

    The color of paradise

    Children of heaven

      • A customer from Potatoborough
      • Posted 10 Dec 2006 unknown

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