The Land of the Enlightened

(2016)

★ 6 IMDb · 14 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2016

Runtime: 83 мин

Country: Belgium, Afghanistan

Director: Питер-Ян Де Пью

Cast: Gholam Nasir, Khyrgyz Baj, Zulfu, Noor

Plot

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...