Mina Walking

Mina Walking is a 2015 Canadian-Afghani Dari-language drama film written and directed by Yosef Baraki.

It was screened in the Generation 14+ section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where it competed for the Crystal Bear.

[1] The film follows a 12-year-old Afghan street seller named Mina as she tries to balance her education with her responsibility as the main breadwinner of the family.

Yosef Baraki has stated that he was inspired to write the film after meeting with a group of child street sellers in Kabul.

Baraki developed the character of Mina by placing Farzana Nawabi in real-life situations and only feeding her parts of the script every day.