Angels Are Made Of Light

Name: Angels Are Made of Light
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-07-24
Duration: 1 h 57 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Fazula, Hasiba, Yaldash Mir-Habibullah

Original title: Angels Are Made of Light

2018
1h 57m

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A dozen years after his Oscar-nominated Iraq in Fragments, American documentarian James Longley delivers a sweeping, profoundly compassionate group portrait of Afghan students and teachers s... Read allA dozen years after his Oscar-nominated Iraq in Fragments, American documentarian James Longley delivers a sweeping, profoundly compassionate group portrait of Afghan students and teachers still weathering national turbulence.A dozen years after his Oscar-nominated Iraq in Fragments, American documentarian James Longley delivers a sweeping, profoundly compassionate group portrait of Afghan students and teachers still weathering national turbulence.

Director
- James Longley
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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

101

YOUR RATING

Director
- James Longley
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations total

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Afghanistan was not the first country in which director James Longley tried to make a school-based film. He made multi-year attempts at the project in both Iran and Pakistan before moving the film to Afghanistan. He then filmed continuously for over three years in a Kabul school to make Angels Are Made Of Light.

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10/10

A Sublime Masterpiece

James Longley is a master filmmaker. Amid the bustle of life in Kabul, Longley gives you an intimate tour of the consciousness of its various protagonists, mainly school children. Imagine the aesthetic and method of Terrence Mallick with the polyphony and humanity of Svetlana Alexievich. This is the kind of film that brings you closer to the core of humanity, the familiar longings and fears that remain common regardless of the outer experiences and manifestations. This film is a masterpiece.