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SWALLOWS OF KABUL

Saturday 5 April 2020
4:00pm | Chapter Cinema 1
£5.90 / £4 concessions
or free with a Festival Pass

Summer 1998 – Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.

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Directed by Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec and based on the novel by Yasmina Khadra, Swallows of Kabul screened at Annecy and Cannes in 2019, and is playing to great acclaim on the festival circuit.

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France, 2019, 81mins, 15

Directed by: Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec

With voices of: Simon Abkarian, Zita Hanrot, Swann Arlaud, Hiam Abbass

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