Beasts of No Nation

★7.6

Child. Captive. Killer.

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he 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.

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Director

Uzodinma Iweala,Cary Joji Fukunaga

Writers

Daniel Crown,Amy J. Kaufman,Riva Marker,...

Producers

$6,000,000

Budget

$9077700

Revenue

11-09-2015

Release Date

Country

7.6

Rating

1745

Votes

Age Rating

137 min

Runtime

Released

Status

English, Akan

Language

★ 7.6

$6,000,000

Budget

$9,077,700

Revenue

11-09-2015

Release Date

Country

7.6

Rating

1,745

Votes

Age Rating

137 min

Runtime

Released

Status

English, Akan

Language

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Director

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Cary Joji Fukunaga is an American film director, writer, and cinematographer. He is known for writing and directing the 2009 film "Sin Nombre", the 2011 film "Jane Eyre", and for directing and executive producing the first season of the HBO series "True Detective", for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. He has received acclaim for the 2015 war drama "Beasts of No Nation", in which Fukunaga was writer, director, producer, and cinematographer. Fukunaga lives in New York City. Fukunaga has lived in France, Japan, and Mexico City. He is fluent in French and Spanish. He counts screenwriter Naomi Foner as a mentor. He has received several grants, including a USA Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, the John H. Johnson Film Award / Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship, and a Katrin Cartlidge Foundation bursary.

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