A CHILD’S CENTURY OF WAR

At the beginning of the last century nine out of ten people killed in war were soldiers. At the beginning of this century none out of ten people killed in war are civilians. Most of them are children. A Child’s Century of War takes the viewer on a journey through the past century—the bloodiest in history—from the perspective of children and told only in their voices. It is an examination of the way in which modern wars have increasingly threatened and targeted children. The film intercuts the stories of children currently in danger with diaries and voices of children from the past in an eerie parallel of history. Three contemporary conflicts are at the heart of the film. Orphans of the two recent Chechen wars, children growing up on the most dangerous street in the West Bank (Martyr Street in Hebron) and the abducted, raped and amputated children of Sierra Leone. We listen to the children themselves, as their stories throw an unflinching and very disturbing light on the human condition at the beginning of our new century.