INQUIRER.net: Afghan boys from nominated film to walk red carpet

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Afghan boys from nominated film to walk red carpet Feb 8th 2013, 04:10 KABUL, Afghanistan—Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Now the 14-year-old Afghan boy with bright green eyes is getting ready for a trip down the red carpet at the Oscars.   It will also be his first time out of the country and his first time on a plane.   Mohammadi was plucked from the dingy streets of the Afghan capital to be one of the main stars of "Buzkashi Boys," a coming-of-age movie filmed entirely in a war zone and nominated in the Best Live Action Short Film category.   The movie is about two penniless young boys — a street urchin and a blacksmith's s... Keep on reading: Afghan boys from nominated film to walk red carpet Media files: Buzkashi-Boys.jpg (image/jpeg)

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