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...
The Land of the Enlightened has generally received positive reviews.
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The Land of the Enlightened was released in 2016 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 8 reviews, giving The Land of the Enlightened (2016) an average rating of 64%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 70%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 65%.
With a score of 64%, The Land of the Enlightened is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2016, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2016 with similar scores include films like Warcraft, The Magnificent Seven and Lights Out.
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