The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan

Documentarian Phil Grabsky presents an extraordinary glimpse of the personal impact of the Afghan war by focusing on Mir, an energetic and cheeky eight-year-old boy who lives among refugees in the ruins of the giant Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. Over the course of three seasons, Grabsky follows the irrepressible Mir as he plays among the rubble and helps members of his family and other Shia Muslims who were driven by poverty into caves in the beautiful Bamiyan Valley of the Hindu Kush. “Haunting” — Sight & Sound.