Pieter-Jan de Pue is a photographer and film director from Belgium. His first film documentary is THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED (2016) which won a World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival.
A film by Pieter-Jan De Pue
2026 - Belgium/Netherlands/Germany/Sweden - Documentary
MARIINKA begins long before the world watched the full-scale invasion. In Eastern Ukraine, the film traces several young Ukrainians whose lives have been forever shaped by more than ten years of war and conflict in the Donbas region.
Shot on 16mm and nine years in the making, MARIINKA is the second feature doc by Pieter-Jan after the highly praised THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED (Sundance 2016).
A film by Pieter-Jan De Pue
2016 - Belgium - Documentary
In the wild Afghan mountains, a gang of Kuchi kids dig out anti-personal mines to collect the explosives,
recycle weapons and keep tight control on the caravans smuggling opium . 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...
