Name: THE KITE RUNNER
Start: 2025-04-23T18:30:00-05:00
Location: FilmScene (at The Chauncey)

A Community Collaborations Event presented by Barb McFadden and Tom Rocklin
Presented in partnership with the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights and Students for Human Rights at Iowa (SHARI)
"A film of exhilarating, redemptive humanity, conveying an enduring sense of hope."—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
Based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini, this powerful film tells the story of Amir (Khalid Abdalla) a writer living in California, who grew up a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, but has lived his life with the guilt of abandoning his childhood friend Hassan. Set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet military intervention, the mass exodus of Afghan refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime, this coming of age epic has deep historical and political significance as well as themes of redemption and brotherhood.