If Luck Will Come

Feature documentary / release 2026

Childhood ends at age fourteen for Afghan children under Taliban rule. In a countdown from age twelve to fourteen, Zahra and Zalgai insist on playing as silence and duty close in, turning the circus they both love into their last act of defiance before childhood disappears.

Produced by Sofie Husum Johannesen 

Directed by Camille Bildsøe 

Cinematography by Jonas Skovbjerg Fogh 

Edited by Signe Rebekka Kaufmann
 

Co-produced by Point of View and Akkeri Films