- Movie Goof (continuity error): Rahim looks at the picture of Soraya, Amir's wife, and puts it down on the table (at 77:20), but we don't actually see where he puts it. In the next shot, the picture is not seen anymore.
- Author Khaled Hosseini describes the filming (in Kashgar, China) of the Kabul kite tournament scenes at 22:42 in the DVD commentary (stereo right) saying "There weren't actually any kites in the sky. We were just kind of looking up at these strings going up to these cables and hanging from the other side there were water bottles to give the string a sense of tension." To which director Marc Forster adds "Yes, because we had no wind." CG kites were added in post-production.
- SPOILER: At Amir's graduation, we don't hear his name announced - in the book, Baba and Amir's surname was never revealed, which raised a quandary in this scene of the screenplay. It was resolved by simply ending the scene as the name "June Kitagawa" is announced (at 54:16). The DVD commentary goes on to point out that for the prop book in the film, director Marc Forster asked author Khaled Hosseini to choose a last name to show on the dust cover and he choose "Qadiri" as shown at 04:03.
- The scenes ostensibly taking place in Afghanistan were mainly shot in the cities of Kashgar and Tashkurgan in the Xinjiang region of China (officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region). The DVD commentary mentions that scenes shot in Kashgar include the kite tournament (at 24:15), the mosque where Amir prays (110:40), and Rahim Khan's apartment in Peshawar, Pakistan (76:11). Scenes shot in Tashkurgan include the opening scenes of a kite duel and the boys running the kite (06:00), the Pomegranate tree (19:04), and the Taliban compound where Amir meets Sohrab (101:00). Scenes shot in or outside of Beijing include the wedding (72:41) and the soccer match (96:53). The San Francisco bar scene (55:07) was also shot in China.
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