Angels Are Made of Light
56th New York Film Festival
September 28 - October 14, 2018
School children grow up before our eyes into young adults in the shattered city of Kabul in the meticulously constructed new film from James Longley (Iraq in Fragments).
Q&As with James Longley on October 7 & 8
In the new film from James Longley (Iraq in Fragments), made over a period of several years, school children grow up before our eyes into young adults in the shattered city of Kabul in the country of Afghanistan. Longley meticulously constructs a framework—at once humanist, historical and poetic—for the trajectories of his young subjects and the adults doing their best to nurture them and prepare them for an unstable and unpredictable future. Angels Are Made of Light is a film of wonders great and small, some terrifying and some deeply moving, made by a truly ethical and attentive artist.
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