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THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED

By Pieter-Jan DE PUE

Documentary - Completed 2016

A group of Kuchi children wage their own mini-wars in the daily madness of life in Afghanistan.

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- BELGIUM
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FARSI, PASHTU
- Budget
- N/A
- Duration
- 87 mn
- Director(s)
- Pieter-Jan DE PUE
- Writer(s)
- Pieter-Jan DE PUE
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-26A5-0000-Z-0000-0000-6
- EIDR
- 10.5240/A6FB-B0D3-3B6F-C26D-8751-X
- Producer(s)
- Bart VAN LANGENDONCK (Savage Film)
- Synopsis
- A group of Kuchi children live in a mine-field surrounding Bagram airforce base, digging out anti-personnel mines in order to sell the explosives to child workers in a lapis lazuli mine. The trajectory of the blue gemstones 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 escape into personal fantasies and dreams.