Snow Monkey (2015)

Snow Monkey plot

“Snow Monkey” is an epic portrait of everyday life in Jalalabad, where the Australian artist George Gittoes is making a Pashtun film with his wife – cheap productions in which violence is not shunned. In a remarkably witty scene, the recordings are interrupted by the megaphones of a gang of young ice cream sellers. Dressed in traditional Afghan costume, Gittoes approaches them: he decides to unite the company with two other youth gangs from the city by having them film and act. For example, the Australian is attempting to offer destitute youth – forced to work by their parents – a better perspective. What follows is an uninhibited collage of joie de vivre and ruthlessness, in which the aspect ratios betray whether the scene is staged or real. Street boys behave like mafiosi inside and outside the set, while their fathers languish further down the park, addicted to hash and heroin. There is a constant threat of drones in the air and attacks on the ground. The youth don't care, life just goes on.

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