Skate culture makes its way to Kabul, a remarkable little film that captures something indelible about the capital of Afghanistan and the truly wretched subsistence of its people, and how some, including intrepid girls, have overcome it:

SKATEISTAN: TO LIVE AND SKATE KABUL from Diesel New Voices on Vimeo.

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