Skateistan Four Wheels and a Board in Kabul

Not long ago Oliver Percovich and Sharna Nolan arrive in Kabul with little more than a couple of skateboards in a country where children constitute more than half the population they soon discover that their boards draw local children like a magnetic force After beginning regular skateboarding sessions in an abandoned fountain one of the few smooth surfaces in Kabul local boys and girls from the streets start to join them on a daily basis These initial encounters informal at first eventually lead to the foundation of Skateistan Afghanistans first coeducational skateboarding school The film tells Skateistans story and how how a group of amateur and pro skaters bridge ethnic religious and socioeconomic barriers to bring hope to the children of a wartorn country with the help of four wheels and a board