“Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent’s recent civil wars.”
The award-winning film Ezra, by Newton Aduaka, told from the perspective of a young boy in Sierra Leone, illuminates one of the most harrowing consequences of war: the recruitment of child soldiers.
Ezra was Aduaka’s first non-independently funded film and it, “won the Grand Jury Prize at several film festivals, including FESPACO, Durban, Amiens and Balafon, and was an official selection at Sundance and Cannes.”
Watch the video above for his discussion of child soldiers, and clips from the film.