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Courtesy of Congoo World sales outfit Filmotor has acquired the global sales rights to “Hazara Town,” the debut feature documentary by Khadim Dai. The film will have its world premiere in the International Competition at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, known as IDFA.
Filmed over six years, “Hazara Town” is a “chronicle of survival, exile and the bond of family,” Filmotor said. Forced from Central Afghanistan by the Taliban in 1998, Dai’s family sought refuge in a walled enclave in Quetta, Pakistan, where the Hazara community continues to face targeted violence. Following a 2013 school bombing that killed 126 people—including Dai’s classmates—his family urged him to flee.
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