Ezra: Movie of the year!

Ezra, the story of a child soldier in the decade-long Sierra Leone civil war, won the top prize at the biennial African Film Festival, Fespaco, in Burkina Faso.

Make a point of enjoying this film by a Nigerian Director.

The main character of the film, Ezra, passes his days between a rehabilitation clinic and a national reconciliation tribunal established by the United Nations. At the tribunal, Ezra must face his sister who accuses him of murdering their parents, although he remembers nothing of what happened. Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war, fueled by "blood diamonds" sold by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels to buy arms, killed more than 200,000 people and left the former British colony in ruins ...read more----->