Kabul Ping Pong

a documentary by Bodil Furu and Beate Petersen

 

"Kabul Ping Pong" (43 min, 2005) gives a rare insight into the lives of three people living in Kabul in Afghanistan. The (former) Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdullah Abdullah, is living in the memories of the brutal murder of the legendaric guerilla leader Ahmed Shah Massoud. Parwana Hazim, a gifted girl of 12, is missing Pakistan and a better school-system. The newspaper editor Fahim Dashty is marked by the traumas the war has induced.

By discussing corrupt politicians, women’s right, warlords, resistance to the Taliban, and ethnic conflicts, "Kabul Ping Pong"  focuses on the strategies these people are using in order to put themselves on their feet after more than twenty years of war.