With international attention finally focused on the worsening genocide in the Sudan, this documentary winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, about the young survivors of this decimated country's bloody past, couldn't have come at a better time. Narrated by Nicole Kidman, the film focuses on the plight of the so-called "Lost Boys," the thousands of predominantly Christian Dinka boys aged 5 to 10 who somehow managed to survive both the murderous raids on their villages by government troops and the deadly, five-year trek back and forth across the sub-Saharan desert before finally landing in the relative safety of a U.N. refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG
Length:
89 mins