Angels Are Made of Light

James Longley
Part of

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).

DIRECTOR
James Longley
YEAR
2018
COUNTRY
USA / Denmark / Norway
RUNTIME
117 minutes

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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.

Angels Are Made of Light
Angels Are Made of Light
Angels Are Made of Light

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