Tea With the Enemy
In November 2013, two men that couldn't be more apart meet over tea on the shores of Lake Qargha in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Mullah Toor Jan - a 28 year-old Afghan who, up until recently, had been fighting Western soldiers, including Canadians, alongside his Taliban brothers.
Martin Forgues – a 33 year-old who, up until recently, had been fighting the Taliban in Kandahar as a Canadian soldier.
One became a political activist, the other a freelance journalist.
Both had laid down their arms.
A conversation started with mutual distrust but ended with mutual respect and an obvious truth – both young men were two faces of the same medal ; two young idealists from diametrically opposed cultures, trained and educated to hate each other and swept into the deadly spiral of war.
A film that dares asking an important question : what makes an "enemy"?
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