100 minutes – Drama
Festival Release date: June 11, 2011 (Shanghai International)
Release date: September 23, 2011
Canadian Distributor: Alliance Films
Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers possibly mutilating corpses in Afghanistan is buried, journalist Luke Benning quits his job determined to return to Afghanistan to get the real story. Through the contacts of his offbeat buddy, Tom, Luke is offered a job by a stoner magazine to return to Afghanistan and do a “gonzo” story about the best hashish in the region. While there, Luke intends to gather enough evidence to get his old story into print. But he soon finds that Afghanistan is an even more dangerous place than when he left. To make matters worse, his old friend and fixer, Mateen has been hired away by Luke`s journalistic nemesis, Imran Sahar. Soon the trip for Luke and Tom in Afghanistan turns into a surreal and perilous adventure, a journey into an alternate reality, filtered through a haze of hash and gun smoke.
Mike Clattenburg
Barrie Dunn
Michael Volpe
Mark Slone
Chris Rudolph
Douglas Bell
Mike Clattenburg
Barrie Dunn
Patrick Graham
Jeremy Benning
Roger Mattiussi
Blain Morris
James Hazell
Keli Manson
Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh
Nick Stahl
Nicolas Wright
Stephen Lobo
Vik Sahay
Steve Cochrane
Pascale Hutton
Ali Liebert
Torrance Coombs
Parm Soor
Colin Cunningham
Emmanuel Shirinian
Pablo Silveira
Ron Lea
Jason Scheming
Timothy Webber
Lewis Black
Gary Levert
Anousha Alamian
Gary Gill
Raj Lal
Meysam Motazedi
Yuriy Sobeshchakov
Rahman Azizi
Hooshang Saadi
Mina E. Mina
Luke Benning
Tom
Mateen
Imran Sahar
Sgt. Rick Cahoon
Elita
Miss Freedom
Davey
Ustad Mir
Christer
Hamid
Mark
Shah
Dr. Hinkley
Himself
Rory
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