In collaboration with the UI Center for Human Rights One Community, One Book project and the African Studies department sponsored screenings of related films.<\/p>\n
Wednesday, October 15, 7:00 p.m. Ezra<\/em> is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n It was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2007 Festival Panafricain du Cinema \u00e0 Ouagadougou<\/em> (FESPACO), Africa\u2019s largest and most prestigious film event, and was selected for the International Critics Week at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 intoContinue reading “African Film Screening – Oct 15”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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