The Coal Of Afgan

2017

Human Stories

It is the story of a country being forced to leave its future…The tradegy of children who have to work in Tor town(many of us might never heard it before), famous for its coal mines in Afghanistan.The children, who lost their fathers in the wars continuing for over 41 years, live in very hard conditions. A lot of children between 9 -16 years old, work in these coal mines in primitve conditions, to take care of their families. Those children working for only 5 dollars daily, and going down 500 metres under 12 times a day, are forced to work in the public eye.Struggling for life, from the eye of 9 years old Semsettin and his best friend Ali and Semsettin’s elderly brother…

Original Title

Afgan Kömürü

Genre

Human Stories

Producer

Zeynep Gülru Keçeciler

Director

Zeynep Gülru Keçeciler

Year

2017

Duration

25

Episode

1

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