Welcome to the Program Board Film and Lecture Committee group. If you have not read The Kite Runner, it is a phenomenal book which has been made into film. “The Kite Runner” spans three decades of Afghan strife and centers on the friendship between Amir, a wealthy Pashtun boy played by Zekiria Ebrahimi, who is now 11, and Hassan, the Hazara son of his father’s servant. In a pivotal scene Hassan, played by Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, now 13, is raped in an alley by a Pashtun bully. Later, Sohrab, a Hazara boy played by Ali Danish Bakhty Ari, now also 13, is preyed upon by a corrupt Taliban official.
It is a story about friendship, family, personal responsibility, and how we cope with life-altering events.