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Nova Scotia, January 10, 2013. He is most noted as director of the films '' The Boxing Girls of Kabul'', which won the
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1st Canadian Screen Awards
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, and as producer of '' Buzkashi Boys'', which was an
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, and educated at the
University of King's College
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. Of
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descent, he has cited the
War in Afghanistan
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as an important formative influence on his work, and concentrates primarily on films about the culture of Afghanistan and Afghan immigrants to Canada.Alison Auld, "Behind enemy lines; Film explores conflicting emotions of being Afghan-Canadian". ''
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'', September 20, 2008.
His other films have included ''Good Morning Kandahar'' (2008), ''The Long Way Home'' (2017) and ''The Mosque: A Community's Struggle'' (2020), a film about the 2017
Quebec City mosque shooting
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