A day in the life of postman Khan Agha

  • Directed by Nazir Whahid
  • Afghanistan, 2011
  • Workshops in Afghanistan - Kabul
  • Urban life, Work
  • Shooting place : Kaboul
  • Duration : 28 min
  • Audio : PRD
  • Subtitles : FR

Synopsis

The postman’s inextricable difficulties as he does his rounds in the streets of Kabul, where addresses are often mysterious and deliveries akin to treasure hunts.

Rewards, festivals and diffusions

One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

  • Place : Prague (Czech Republic)
  • Date : 2013

DockumentArt European Film Festival

  • Place : Neubrandenburg (Germany)
  • Date : 2012

Rencontres du cinéma européen

  • Place : Vannes (France)
  • Date : 2012

Festival Indo Persan

  • Place : Marseille (France)
  • Date : 2012

Festival des 3 Continents

  • Place : Nantes (France)
  • Date : 2011

Whahid Nazir

Director

Born in 1965 in Kabul, Waheed Nazir has been raised in a middle-class family. He graduated from high school in 1980, and then he performed a three years long army service. Back in the civil life, he got a diploma in cinema for the faculty of arts of the University of Kabul before returning in the army, as an officer. Then, he began working for Afghan films for only three months, indeed he was forced to flee to Iran by the internal wars. Ten years later, in 2002, Waheed came back to Kabul after Taleban's fall. Since then, he is hired as a director by Afghan films and directed a fiction and a documentary. Between 2006 and 2011, he directed three with Ateliers Varan.

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