Beasts of No Nation

Movie Information

Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral detail, and paints a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier.—Bennie Carden

Director:

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Writer:

Cary Joji Fukunaga, Uzodinma Iweala

Actors:

Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Affadzi, Ricky Adelayitar