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Johnny Mad Dog

Johnny Mad Dog

Un Certain Regard, Prize of Hope, 2008 Cannes Film Festival
France, Belgium, Liberia/2007/98 min/Fiction
Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Language: English
Subtitles: Japanese
Distributor: INTERFILM

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15 year-old Johnny, known as the "Mad Dog," is the leader of a gang of underage freedom fighters. The film depicts the boys' struggles with extreme situations and sometimes themselves as they try to survive in a region where bloody wars have destroyed lives and stolen the innocence of countless children. Filmed on location in Liberia, the film was screened at the UN Headquarters in New York.

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