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Ezra (2007) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Sundance Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )
France ( France, Benelux )
Nigeria ( Africa, Middle East )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Newton I. Aduaka

Written By:
Newton I. Aduaka
Alain-Michel Blanc

Actors:
Mamoudu Turay Kamara ..... Ezra
Mariame N'Diaye ..... Onitcha
Mamusu Kallon ..... Mariam
Richard Gant ..... Mac Mondale
Mercy Ojelade ..... Cynthia
Emile Abossolo M'bo ..... Moses
Merveille Lukeba ..... Blackjesus
Wale Ojo

Synopsis:

Ezra, a 16-year-old former child soldier who spent ten years living and fighting with a rebel faction, is questioned before a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the wake of Sierra Leone's civil war. The commissions, based on the idea of transitional justice and modeled on the one in South Africa, were meant to be not punitive but restorative, therapeutic for those whose human rights have been violated but also for the violators themselves. Ezra is in deep denial and clearly suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Only once Ezra admits his crimes, realizes how he came to commit them and repents for the suffering he has caused, will he be ready to rejoin society and make peace with himself.

Ezra was nine years old when rebels overrun his school and kidnapped him. Meanwhile he is sixteen, has escaped from 'The Brotherhood', and stands before a Truth and Reconciliation Commission headed by the American Mac Mondale. Ezras sister Onitcha, who has had her tongue cut out, bears witness that he was present in an attack on the family village in which their own parents were killed and may even have been the one who killed them. Mac Mondale wants Ezra to confess to crimes. He wont. He denies any memory of them &

Ezra, a young former Sierra Leonean fighter, struggles to return to normal life after the civil war that has ravaged his country.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 15 October, 2010.

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