After reading in a newspaper about an Afghan girl who shared her fighter pilot dreams, the filmmaker knew what she needed to do: Simone would fly herself to Afghanistan and show her how to fly. In her tiny canvas-covered ’61 Piper Colt plane, the unlikely journey from Copenhagen to Kabul takes three long, exhilarating and complicated months.
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Smiling In A War Zone
78-minutes
After reading in a newspaper about an Afghan girl who shared her fighter pilot dreams, the filmmaker knew what she needed to do: Simone would fly herself to Afghanistan and show her how to fly. In her tiny canvas-covered '61 Piper Colt plane, the journey from Copenhagen to Kabul takes three long, exciting and complex months.
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