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The Land of the Enlightened
2016 · Film · documentary · 83 min
Directed by Pieter-Jan De Pue
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...
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From the last four years: (I'm a professional critic, thus watch almost everything)
1. Gunda. A mother pig.
2. An insignificant man. Politics in India.
3. Mr Bachmann and his class. A teacher.
4. Icarus. The doping scandal.
All time:
https://letterboxd.com/rurban/films/ratings/genre/documentary/by/your-rating/
Gunda, The real dirt on Farmer Joe, Models (Seidl), Warheads (Karmakar), The Land of the Enlightened, Close-Up (Kiarostami), The Wild Parrots of Telegraf Hill, ...
Lapis Lazuli also plays a big role in the film "Land of the Enlightened" where you get to see kids run the show for once :)