Beetz Brothers Film Production
Eyeworks
Fastnet Films
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The Land of the Enlightened
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...
- Original title
- The Land of the Enlightened
- Language
- EN
- Country
- IE,US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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No cast information available.
Pieter-Jan De Pue
Director of Photography
Pieter-Jan De Pue
Director
Alain Dessauvage
Editorial Consultant
Femke Wolting
Co-Producer
Bart Van Langendonck
Producer
Pieter-Jan De Pue
Writer
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