The Land of the Enlightened (2016)
Documentary
Overview
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...
Cast
- Gholam Nasir as Himself
- Khyrgyz Baj as Himself
- Zulfu as Himself
- Noor as Himself
Similar Movies
- Stanisław Lem: Autor Solaris
- The Forbidden Reel
- John Huston War Stories
- Art as a Weapon
- The First Emperor of China
- Jaan
- Shameless Propaganda
- The Auschwitz Trial
- And there was evening and there was morning. The first day
- Afghanistan : les derniers résistants
- Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier?
- Zona di guerra - Professione Contractor