Ezra (Nigeria)
Directed by Newton Aduaka
2007, 110 min.
In English
Ezra tells the story of a former child soldier attempting to find inner peace after the horrors he had witnessed and committed as a combatant in Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war. Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on this disturbing new phenomenon of child soldiers in the continent's recent civil wars. At the same time that the film is a complex psychological study of one child soldier, it also points to ways these war-torn societies can reconstruct themselves. Winner of the Grand Prize at FESPACO in Burkina Faso, Africa's largest and most prestigious film festival, in 2007.