The Land of the Enlightened
Visit website6.2/10 • 12
2016-03-16 • 1h 23m
How children master their lives in war-torn Afghanistan by engaging in ingenious commerce.
A group of Kuchi children are living in a minefield around Bagram airfield, Afghanistan. They dig out anti-personal mines in order to sell the explosives to child workers mining in a Lappis Lazulli mine. The trajectory of the blue precious stones goes towards Tajikistan and China, through an area controlled by child soldiers. When they are not waging their own mini-wars in the daily madness of life in Afghanistan, the children are fleeing away in their personal fantasies and dreams, while the American soldiers are planning their retreat...
- Directors
- Pieter-Jan De Pue
- Writters
- Pieter-Jan De Pue
- Editors
- David Dusa
The Land of the Enlightened
Visit website2016-03-16 • 1h 23m
6.2/10 • 12
How children master their lives in war-torn Afghanistan by engaging in ingenious commerce.
A group of Kuchi children are living in a minefield around Bagram airfield, Afghanistan. They dig out anti-personal mines in order to sell the explosives to child workers mining in a Lappis Lazulli mine. The trajectory of the blue precious stones goes towards Tajikistan and China, through an area controlled by child soldiers. When they are not waging their own mini-wars in the daily madness of life in Afghanistan, the children are fleeing away in their personal fantasies and dreams, while the American soldiers are planning their retreat...
- Directors
- Pieter-Jan De Pue
- Writters
- Pieter-Jan De Pue
- Editors
- David Dusa
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsGholam Nasir
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Khyrgyz Baj
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Zulfu
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Noor
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- Original Language
- English
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- Keywords
- hybridafghanistandocudrama