Ali Hazara, a product of the Varan studios, films the night-time street-sweepers of Kabul. For a miserly wage, these poor folk from the suburbs remove tons of dust from along an avenue, amid the glare of headlights and the incessant din of the traffic. Shadows among shadows, they dance a pathetic ballet: that of a country’s uncertain progress towards “modernity”.
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