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Ezra

Nigeria, 2007,103 MIN, Feature
Starring: Mamoudu Turay Kamara, Mariame N'Diaye, Mamusu Kallon
Directed by: Newton I. Aduaka
Language: English

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. Ezra is structured around the week-long questioning of a 16 year old boy, Ezra, before a version of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, created in Sierra Leone in 2002 in the wake of its decade long civil war. This hearing is then inter-cut with chronological flashbacks to pivotal moments during Ezra's ten years in the rebel faction which made him who he is.

Awards and Festivals: Won Best Film, Durban Film Festival 2007
Won Grand Prize INALCO Award UNFPA Award, Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival

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