Pieter-Jan De Pue
Director
The Land of the Enlightened (2016)
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...
Genres: Documentary, Drama, War
Keywords: tmdb.afghanistan, tmdb.hybrid, tmdb.docudrama, mdblist.rotten, imdb.reenactment, aspectratio.1-85-1, awards.festival-sundance-winner
Production Companies: Sciapode, Savage Film, Fastnet Films, Submarine, ZDF/Arte + 5 more, Canvas, Interkerkelijke Omroep Nederland (IKON), Eyeworks, Prime, Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion
Country: Ireland
Production Countries:
Afghanistan,
Belgium,
Germany,
Ireland,
Netherlands
Languages:
Russian,
English,
Persian
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Runtime: 83 min.
Released: March 16, 2016
Digital Release: March 16, 2016
Status: Released
Certification: 15 / 15+