In collaboration with the UI Center for Human Rights One Community, One Book project and the African Studies department sponsored screenings of related films.

Wednesday, October 15, 7:00 p.m.
Iowa City Public Library Meeting Room A

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. This film tells the story of Ezra, a young boy kidnapped and forced to become a soldier with a rebel faction in the Sierra Leone Civil War. Ten years later, he is brought before a truth and reconciliation commission and made to revisit and understand his crimes so as to begin the process of psychological healing. In English; 105 Minutes. Introduction by Professor James Giblin.

It was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2007 Festival Panafricain du Cinema à Ouagadougou (FESPACO), Africa’s largest and most prestigious film event, and was selected for the International Critics Week at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.