The Land of the Enlightened

• Cast: Gholam Nasir, Khyrgyz Baj, Zulfu, Noor
• Duration: 83 minutes
• Genre: Documentary
• Rating: 6/10
• Release Date: 2016-03-16

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...