Saturday, June 20, 2020

"Ezra", The Best Film By A Nigerian Filmmaker in the Last 20 Years


"EZRA":
THE BEST FILM BY A NIGERIAN FILMMAKER IN THE LAST 20 YEARS
Nigerian filmmaker, Newton Aduaka’s acclaimed multiple award winning war film “Ezra,” in 2007, was at  the Cannes Film Festival, @festivaldecannes .



“Ezra” won the Etalon d’or de Yennenga (the Golden Stallion of Yennenga), the highest prize at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in 2007.
“Ezra” premiered in the world cinema competition at the Sundance film festival and was nominated for the Humanitas Prize and screened in a special section of the Critics’ Week in Cannes, 2007.
"Ezra" won 28 international awards.

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Ezra, a young Sierra Leonean ex-fighter, is struggling to find his bearings and return to a normal life after the civil war that laid waste to his country. His everyday life is divided between a psychological rehabilitation centre and a national reconciliation tribunal organized under the auspices of the UNO. During the rehabilitation trial in which Ezra takes part, he has to face his sister who is accusing him of the murder of their parents. But Ezra does not remember a thing. Will Ezra admit this horror and thus be forgiven by his sister and his village community?


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