GITTOES FILMS presents SNOW MONKEY 

with

UNICORN FILMS and SCREEN AUSTRALIA

Written & Directed by

GEORGE GITTOES

 Produced by 

LIZZETTE ATKINS and GEORGE GITTOES  

 ©2015 Gittoes Films Pty Ltd

Unicorn Films Pty Ltd

Screen Australia

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One of Australia's greatest photojournalists takes you on a riveting first-hand journey through an Afghanistan you'll never see on the news.

In Snow Monkey, Gittoes paints a portrait of a Jalalabad seething with humanity, adversity and hope – focusing on three gangs of children: the Ghostbusters, persecuted Kochi boys who hawk exorcisms of bad luck and demons; the Snow Monkeys, who sell ice cream to support their families; and the Gangsters, a razor gang led by a nine-year-old antihero called Steel, terrifying to the core but still capable of experiencing aspects of the childhood seemingly taken from him.

With a deeply humane vision that won him the Sydney Peace Prize, Gittoes shows us the unseen nature of Afghanistan's politics, culture and society, up close and startlingly personal.