Heart of Stone

Heart of Stone

2DCS/ES12
Premiere:11. March 2019
Length:89 minutes
Genre:Document

When he was 12, Ghorban arrived in France from Afghanistan after an arduous 12,000 km journey, but for years his new life was not the one he dreamed of as a child.

The film tracks Ghorban for 8 years as the young refugee becomes first a teenager and then a mature young man. Before being taken in by a youth center, he slept on the streets, pinning his hopes on one day being able to attend school again. But after his traumatic experiences in Afghanistan he finds that even in France things are not easy. Moments of despair resulting from oppressive boredom and feelings of emptiness stemming from exploitation alternate with the first glimmers of a promise of a better future and first success. Ghorban’s story, framed by sessions with a psychologist, is a strong testimony of one human’s fate.

Length: 89 min

Year: 2018
Local premiere date: 11. March 2019

Country of origin:

  • France

When he was 12, Ghorban arrived in France from Afghanistan after an arduous 12,000 km journey, but for years his new life was not the one he dreamed of as a child.

The film tracks Ghorban for 8 years as the young refugee becomes first a teenager and then a mature young man. Before being taken in by a youth center, he slept on the streets, pinning his hopes on one day being able to attend school again. But after his traumatic experiences in Afghanistan he finds that even in France things are not easy. Moments of despair resulting from oppressive boredom and feelings of emptiness stemming from exploitation alternate with the first glimmers of a promise of a better future and first success. Ghorban’s story, framed by sessions with a psychologist, is a strong testimony of one human’s fate.

Year: 2018
Local premiere date: 11. March 2019

Country of origin:

  • France