Shot over the course of seven years in Afghanistan, #TheLandOfTheEnlightened is an astonishing film which combines a vérité portrait of a nation and its young people with the magic-reality of their dreams.

In the vast mountain region of the northern Wakhan Corridor (‘The Roof of the World’), a gang of nomadic children raid caravans and trade scavenged Soviet landmines, raw lapis lazuli and black opium for food and fuel. Possessing a talent for improvisation and an inexhaustible eagerness to learn, they navigate a harsh reality as U.S. forces begin to withdraw from the country, all the while dreaming of themselves as warriors and kings in a future Afghanistan.

Fusing their vivid imaginings with documented reality, De Pue has created an exhilarating story that pushes the boundaries of nonfiction filmmaking.

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