Not much positive news tends to come out of Afghanistan, but a pocket of it shines through in one of this year’s Oscar-nominated documentary shorts. Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a…
Not much positive news tends to come out of Afghanistan, but a pocket of it shines through in one of this year’s Oscar-nominated documentary shorts., reveals a school in Kabul called Skateistan that offers kids the chance to study the three R’s and pick up skateboarding. For Afghan girls who are often deprived of an education—physical or academic—it’s an unheard of opportunity.
Attending the school also reveals a much bigger world to the girls than they would experience confined to the home. “It was very clear that to get it right, it had to be an all-female crew,” Dysinger states. As a woman, the director could penetrate the inner sanctum of the Afghan home, where women are removed from view.
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