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The Cinematic Representation of Child Soldiers in Liberia

In 2003, the film director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire became famous for Carlitos Medellin, a documentary film about the armed conflict between the street children and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) military in Colombia, which was awarded the Best Film prize for Children’s Rights in 2004. The film revealed the director’s desire to make a fictional work that showed children recruited into armed conflicts. The matrix of the scenario was inspired by the Congolese novelist Emmanuel Dongala’s book, Johnny Chien Méchant, which dramatizes the fate of two children trapped into the civil war in Congo. Méchant is the leader of a militia of children soldiers and Laokole is a girl who attempts to flee the city besieged by the fights. According to Sauvaire, “I first raised the issue of ‘children in armed conflicts’ with my documentary Carlitos Medellin. . . . After I read Dongala’s novel, images started to come to my mind. . . . This book is amazing, the story deeply moved me so I wanted to make a film adaptation of it, in order to tell the issue of child soldiers.”