My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan

In 2014 director Richard Linklater released the Oscar-winning Boyhood - his fictional saga of growing up, filmed with the same cast across twelve years. Now award-winning filmmakers Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi release a real-life epic of boyhood and manhood - filmed across twenty years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe. "Look at the American planes!" shouts Mir - a mischievous boy of eight when the filmmakers meet him. Now he's a man of 27 with children of his own - and a fledgling career as a news cameraman. He lived through 9/11, when his homeland became ground zero in the war on terror. He has subsequently lived through the unsuccessful war against the Taliban who are on the verge of regaining power. Mir and his family form a portrait of embattled Afghanistan that no other film has ever captured.