Kabuli Kid  You wait ages for a taxi and then two arrive at
once. Though, Laila's Birthday and Kabuli Kid are situated in
different world hotspots - Ramallah and Kabul - they both use
the roving nature of an everyman cabbie's life to paint a
picture of the state of the cities where they work. But where
Laila's Birthday focuses on the madness inflicted on a
population just trying to get by, Kabuli Kid is more concerned
with the denizens of the city themselves and, in particular,
their conflicted attitudes after a quarter of a century of
warfare and the fall of the Taliban.  Khaled (Hadji Gul) is
going about his day's work as normal, telling a female
passenger, in burkha, in the back of his cab that the veil is
"out of style" and praising construction efforts visible in the
city. Dropping her off, he picks up his next fare, but he isn't
far down the street before he realises the woman has left her
baby boy lying in the back of his cab. "What kind of a mother
leaves her baby?" asks his incredulous passenger, a s