A Kandahar Away

A Kandahar Away (2019)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2019-05-01
  • Runtime: 1h 23min
  • Language: English
  • Production Country: Canada
  • Director:

Summary

In 1991, a refugee arrived in Canada with his wife and five children, having fled his home in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Decades later, upon discovering the dwindling hamlet of Kandahar, Saskatchewan, he felt an immediate connection that needed to be explored. Abdul Bari Jamal's impulsive purchase of eight empty lots in the middle of the Canadian Prairies became an unexpected inheritance for his grown children. When the extended family of self-declared urbanites make their first trip together to witness their new property, Jamal's daughter takes the opportunity to document the unusual family vacation, hoping to unpack her father's relationship to his homeland and Canadian patriotism. What transpires on their journey is so much more than a humorous Green Acres collision of cultures-it's a heartfelt and moving conversation about two nations connected by conflict and how much of our identity is tied to the land we occupy.

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Sound Bruce Fowler Music
Camera John Westheuser Director of Photography
Production Deborah Parks Producer
Directing Aisha Jamal Director
Writing Aisha Jamal Writer
Camera Max Armstrong Director of Photography
Editing Geoff Matheson Editor