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Son of a Lion (2007)

Son of a Lion (2007)

Drama War
Release Date: 2007, October 6
Directors: Benjamin Gilmour
Countries: Australia, Pakistan
Production: Australian Film Commission, Carolyn Johnson Films, Leapfrog Productions
Cast: Niaz Khan Shinwari, Sher Alam Miskeen Ustad, Baktiyar Ahmed Afridi, Anousha Vasif Shinwari, Fazal Bibi, Khaista Mir, Hayat Khan Shinwari, Agha Jaan, Noor Ullah, Mubasir Afridi, Sarwar Khan Shinwari, Khalid Khan

Overview:

In the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, a widowed father expects his only son to follow in his footsteps. Darra Adam Khel is home to the ethnic Pashtuns. The local industry is the handcrafting of firearms. It has been this way since long before the war on terror. Eleven-year-old Niaz Afridi works with his father learning how to make and test weapons just as Sher Alam learnt from his father before him. But Niaz doesn’t want to follow in his father’s footsteps. He wants to go to school.