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Buzkashi Boys

Synopsis

Set against the dramatic landscape of contemporary Afghanistan and the National sport of Buzkashi - a brutal game of horse polo played with a dead goat - Buzkashi Boys tells the coming of age story of two best friends, a charismatic street urchin and a defiant blacksmith's son, who struggle to realize their dreams as they make their way to manhood in one of the most war-torn countries on Earth. Shot on location in Kabul city by an alliance of Afghan and international film makers, Buzkashi Boys is a look at the life that continues beyond the headlines of war in Afghanistan.

Key Information & Fast Facts

Director
Sam French
Screenplay & Story
Martin Desmond Roe, Sam French
Original Title
Buzkashi Boys
Country of Origin
Afghanistan, United States of America
Spoken Languages
English
Runtime
28m

Creative Leadership & Key Crew

Director

Sam French

Screenplay & Story

Martin Desmond Roe, Sam French

Director of Photography

Duraid Munajim

Film Editing

Nels Bangerter

Producers

Ariel Nasr

Department Leadership Roster

Sam French

Director

Martin Desmond Roe

Martin Desmond Roe

Screenplay

Sam French

Screenplay

Ariel Nasr

Producer

Duraid Munajim

Director of Photography

Nels Bangerter

Editor

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Best Actor <br/>Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln <br/>Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrick "Pat Jr." Solitano <br/>Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables as Jean Valjean <br/>Joaquin Phoenix – The Master as Freddie Quell <br/>Denzel Washington – Flight as William "Whip" Whitaker <br/> <br/>* 4. Best Actress <br/>Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell <br/>Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty as Maya <br/>Emmanuelle Riva – Amour as Anne Laurent <br/>Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild as Hushpuppy <br/>Naomi Watts – The Impossible as Maria Bennett <br/> <br/>* 5. Best Supporting Actor <br/>Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained as Dr. King Schultz <br/>Alan Arkin – Argo as Lester Siegel <br/>Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrizio "Pat Sr," Solitano <br/>Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master as Lancaster Dodd <br/>Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln as Thaddeus Stevens <br/> <br/>* 6. Best Supporting Actress <br/>Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables as Fantine <br/>Amy Adams – The Master as Peggy Dodd <br/>Sally Field – Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln <br/>Helen Hunt – The Sessions as Cheryl Cohen-Greene <br/>Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook as Dolores Solitano <br/> <br/>* 7. Best Original Screenplay <br/>Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino <br/>Amour – Michael Haneke <br/>Flight – John Gatins <br/>Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola <br/>Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal <br/> <br/>* 8. Best Adapted Screenplay <br/>Argo – Chris Terrio from The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Mendez & The Great Escape by Joshuah Bearman <br/>Beasts of the Southern Wild – Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin from Juicy and Delicious by Lucy Alibar <br/>Life of Pi – David Magee from Life of Pi by Yann Martel <br/>Lincoln – Tony Kushner from Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin <br/>Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell from The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick <br/> <br/>* 9. Best Animated Feature Film <br/>Brave – Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman <br/>Frankenweenie – Tim Burton <br/>ParaNorman – Sam Fell and Chris Butler <br/>The Pirates! Band of Misfits – Peter Lord <br/>Wreck-It Ralph – Rich Moore <br/> <br/>* 10. Best Foreign Language Film <br/>Amour (Austria) in French – Michael Haneke <br/>Kon-Tiki (Norway) in English and Norwegian – Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg <br/>No (Chile) in Spanish – Pablo Larrain <br/>A Royal Affair (Denmark) in Danish – Nikolaj Arcel <br/>War Witch (Canada) in French – Kim Nguyen <br/> <br/>* 11. Best Documentary – Feature <br/>Searching for Sugar Man – Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn <br/>5 Broken Cameras – Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi <br/>The Gatekeepers – Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky, and Estelle Fialon <br/>How to Survive a Plague – David France and Howard Gertler <br/>The Invisible War – Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering <br/> <br/>* 12. Best Documentary – Short Subject <br/>Inocente – Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine <br/>Kings Point – Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider <br/>Mondays at Racine – Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan <br/>Open Heart – Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern <br/>Redemption – Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill <br/> <br/>* 13. Best Live Action Short Film <br/>Curfew – Shawn Christensen <br/>Asad – Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura <br/>Buzkashi Boys – Sam French and Ariel Nasr <br/>Death of a Shadow (Dood Van Een Schaduw) – Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele <br/>Henry – Yan England <br/> <br/>* 14. Best Animated Short Film <br/>Paperman – John Kahrs <br/>Adam and Dog – Minkyu Lee <br/>Fresh Guacamole – PES <br/>Head over Heels – Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly <br/>The Longest Daycare – David Silverman <br/> <br/>* 15. Best Original Score <br/>Life of Pi – Mychael Danna <br/>Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli <br/>Argo – Alexandre Desplat <br/>Lincoln – John Williams <br/>Skyfall – Thomas Newman <br/> <br/>* 16. Best Original Song <br/>"Skyfall" from Skyfall – Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth <br/>"Before My Time" from Chasing Ice – J. Ralph <br/>"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from Ted – Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane <br/>"Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi – Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri <br/>"Suddenly" from Les Miserables – Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer, and Alain Boublil <br/> <br/>* 17. Best Sound Editing <br/>Skyfall – Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers <br/>Zero Dark Thirty – Paul N. J. Ottosson <br/>Argo – Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn <br/>Django Unchained – Wylie Stateman <br/>Life of Pi – Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton <br/> <br/>* 18. Best Sound Mixing <br/>Les Miserables – Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, and Simon Hayes <br/>Argo – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, and Jose Antonio Garcia <br/>Life of Pi – Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill, and Drew Kunin <br/>Lincoln – Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, and Ronald Judkins <br/>Skyfall – Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, and Stuart Wilson <br/> <br/>* 19. Best Production Design <br/>Lincoln – Rick Carter and Jim Erickson <br/>Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer <br/>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent, and Simon Bright <br/>Les Miserables – Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson <br/>Life of Pi – David Gropman and Anna Pinnock <br/> <br/>* 20. Best Cinematography <br/>Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda <br/>Anna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey <br/>Django Unchained – Robert Richardson <br/>Lincoln – Janusz Kaminski <br/>Skyfall – Roger Deakins <br/> <br/>* 21. Best Makeup And Hairstyling <br/>Les Miserables – Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell <br/>Hitchcock – Howard Berger, Peter Montagna, and Martin Samuel <br/>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater, and Tami Lane <br/> <br/>* 22. Best Costume Design <br/>Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran <br/>Les Miserables – Paco Delgado <br/>Lincoln – Joanna Johnston <br/>Mirror Mirror – Eiko Ishioka <br/>Snow White and the Huntsman – Colleen Atwood <br/> <br/>* 23. Best Film Editing <br/>Argo – William Goldenberg <br/>Life of Pi – Tim Squyres <br/>Lincoln – Michael Kahn <br/>Silver Linings Playbook – Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers <br/>Zero Dark Thirty – Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg <br/> <br/>* 24. Best Visual Effects <br/>Life of Pi – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer, and Donald R. Elliott <br/>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, and R. Christopher White <br/>Marvel's The Avengers – Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams, and Dan Sudick <br/>Prometheus – Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley, and Martin Hill <br/>Snow White and the Huntsman – Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould, and Michael Dawson <br/>

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Frequently Asked Questions About Buzkashi Boys

Quick factual answers about cast, synopsis, director, box office, and release information.

What is Buzkashi Boys about?

Set against the dramatic landscape of contemporary Afghanistan and the National sport of Buzkashi - a brutal game of horse polo played with a dead goat - Buzkashi Boys tells the coming of age story of two best friends, a charismatic street urchin and a defiant blacksmith's son, who struggle to realize their dreams as they make their way to manhood in one of the most war-torn countries on Earth. Shot on location in Kabul city by an alliance of Afghan and international film makers, Buzkashi Boys is a look at the life that continues beyond the headlines of war in Afghanistan.

Who directed Buzkashi Boys?

Buzkashi Boys was directed by Sam French.

Who stars in Buzkashi Boys?

The principal cast of Buzkashi Boys includes Wali Talash, Fawad Mohammadi, Jawanmard Paiz.

When was Buzkashi Boys released and how long is it?

Buzkashi Boys was released in 2012 with a total runtime of 28m.