Buzkashi Boys

Buzkashi Boys is a 2012 film, coproduced in Afghanistan and the United States. It was considered and later nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

Filmed entirely on location in Kabul, Afghanistan, Buzkashi Boys tells the coming of age story of two best friends a street urchin and a blacksmiths son who dream of a better life. Rafi, whose family has long worked in blacksmith trade, bridles under his fathers insistence that he follow in his footsteps.His best friend Ahmad, a penniless orphan, survives by begging for coins in exchange for a puff of incense from his makeshift censera tin can swung from a piece of wire. Seeking to escape their destinies, the two friends dream of becoming champion horsemen in Afghanistans national sport, Buzkashia dangerous form of polo played on horseback with a headless goat carcass instead of a ball. When Ahmad decides to steal a horse to prove he can realize his dreams, things spiral out of control and Rafi must come to terms with the reality of his situation. ........

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