The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2004)

The film is about Mir's life through three seasons of summer, winter and spring. In post-Taliban Afghanistan, though much has changed and is changing, there is no guarantee that Mir will survive life in a cave - the sickness, dirt, dust, lack of water and lack of food. Yet his engaging story is not one of gloom and doom but that of a normal child who takes life as it comes and finds entertainment wherever he can. His playground is the rubble and tunnels of the destroyed Buddhas of Bamiyan (destroyed by the Taliban in 2001), the shelled and burnt-out town bazaar and the orchard of the local militia.