• Director: Newton I. Aduaka
  • Release Year: 2007
  • Production Country: France, Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom, Austria
  • Language: English

Ezra

Description

Abducted from his school by rebels, 6-year-old Ezra is indoctrinated into the Brotherhood, one of the rival guerrilla factions fighting in Sierra Leone’s bloody civil war. Ten years later, he is captured by government forces and his crimes as a soldier of the Brotherhood seem unforgivable—until the brutal truths of Ezra’s years growing up in the rebel organization are revealed.

Themes

Sierra Leone Civil War (1992 – 2001), Children soldiers, Children in war, Conscription, War crimes, Massacres, Social justice, Guerrilla warfare, Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Survivors