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Original title: Where the Light Shines
Year: 2019
Running time: 100 min.
Country: Australia
Director: Daniel Etter
Cast: Documentary
Music: Wouter Rentema, Koen-Willem Toering
Cinematography: Angello Faccini
Producer: Co-production Australia-Germany-United Kingdom-Afghanistan-Italy-Switzerland;
Genre: Documentary | Sport Documentaries
Synopsis: When two men compete to qualify in the Winter Olympics for the first time for Afghanistan, they realize that home is worth fighting for. In their wake they leave a passion for skiing and a hope for a brighter future. Where the Light Shines is the debut documentary from Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Daniel Etter with stunning cinematography by Angello Faccini. It is produced by Academy Award nominees Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis along with Steven Sawalich from Articulus Entertainment. Filmed over four years, Where the Light Shines paints an intimate portrait of life in Afghanistan and shows the difficulties of trying to create change in a country that for generations has only seen war.

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Where the Light Shines

2019

Daniel Etter