One Bullet - Now Streaming on Docuseek
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92 min. | Closed Captioned
A film by Carol Dysinger
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"Highly Recommended. The viewer gets to see the ‘push and pull’ between two cultures: Afghan and American. Dysinger is aware of what she represents: The US and how many Afghans feel about our country...What remains after 20+ years is a generation of Afghan families and children whose entire lives have been blighted by the misery and impact of war."
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One Bullet is an epic story on an intimate, human scale. Two decades of war told through one bullet, a death, and a touching friendship. This story of intimate female friendship forged amidst America's longest war is told by Academy® and BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Carol Dysinger, who spent fifteen years in and out of Afghanistan.
In this war movie, the battlefield lies behind the curtains of an Afghan home as Bibi Hajji struggles to survive the loss of her youngest child and the impact of a brother's death on her remaining sons. A haunting image of that boy surviving a bullet wound prompted Dysinger to investigate. What happened to him? Who fired the shot? One Bullet evolves from procedural to an excavation of the human experience, of loss and redemption. It asks: how might we make peace across vast social, cultural and religious divisions? One cup of tea at a time.
Hajji is a fiercely devout widow and mother of 11 children. Hajji and Dysinger strike up a friendship that quickly destroys the conventions of documentary filmmaking. Hajji insists on breaking the fourth wall, and soon hijacks the whole film — dismissing, at risk to herself and family, the Afghan men around her who say: “Don’t let that American film you.”
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