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Synopsis

When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili's head, he is forced to flee the country with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing the family's uncertain journey firsthand, Fazili documents their harrowing trek across numerous borders revealing the danger and uncertainty facing refugees seeking asylum juxtaposed with the unbreakable love shared amongst the family on the run.

Cast

  • Hassan Fazili
  • Nargis Fazili
  • Zahra Fazili
  • Fatima Hossaini

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Metacritic

90
Dec 1, 2021

Hassan doesn’t need to provide a grand framing device. You sense their powerlessness, you are embedded within it. There is no omniscient camera to take the audience away because there is no freedom of movement for the Fazilis.

Sophie Monks Kaufman
Little White Lies
80
Oct 3, 2019

It is the gift of Midnight Traveler to allow us to feel this family’s fate in the pit of our stomachs. If the plight of refugees has ever seemed abstract, this film makes sure you know how real it is.

Metacritic review by Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
88
Sep 16, 2019

Balancing rough-edge verité with highly composed images and a meticulous structure, it doesn’t preclude itself from finding something like poetry in its subjects’ struggles.

Metacritic review by Pat Brown
Pat Brown
Slant Magazine