Runtime: 112

Director: Marc Forster

Cast:

David Benioff, Khalid Abdalla, Homayon Ershadi, Shaun Toub, Atossa Leoni, Abdul Qadir Farookh

The story is about the bond that develops in Afghanistan between a privileged youth, Amir, and the son of his father‘s servant, Hassan, who both have a love of kite flying. The relationship fractures when Hassan is set upon by a gang of neighborhood bullies during a kite–flying tournament and the other boy does nothing to help him. Hassan is a Hazara, a minority ethnic group of Shi‘a Muslims. He is attacked by a group of Pashtun boys, lead by Assef, a young boy who heavily identifies with Hitler‘s doctrine. After this attack, Amir feels deep guilt and shame, which causes him to shut Hassan out of his life until years later, when the tragedy of the Taliban regime reconnects the youths.