User:Wilmamassucco/Life does not lose its value

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Synopsis

Life does not lose its value focuses on the reintegration, lead by Father Giuseppe Berton, of former child soldiers, ten years after the Sierra Leone Civil War that ran from 1991 to 2002. It focuses on the question: is it possible to overcome suffering, even when it's huge and deep like a child soldiers' suffering? If so, how?

The film includes interviews by Wilma Massucco of several former child soldiers - who lived for years in the forest, together with the rebels of the RUF - victims of child soldiers, persons who survived the rebels' attacks as well as representatives of the Family Homes Movement, the movement founded by Father Giuseppe Berton in Sierra Leone, in 1985. The various interviews alternate in the discussion with Father Giuseppe Berton, who also interacts with Roberto Ravera (Director ASL 1 Imperiese, Italy), a psychologist who worked with FHM through Research projects aiming to analyze the effect of trauma on child soldiers.

The main message of the documentary is: “Whoever you are, whatever evil action you might have done or that might have led you to inflict sorrow .... your life has not lost its value” (Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni, Oral Teachings, V – VII sec Before Christ)

This documentary comparable with Kony 2012, a short film about child soldiers in Uganda, created by Invisible Children, Inc., and released on March 5, 2012, that spread virally on the web. Both documentaries deal with the issue of child soldiers.

Some former child soldiers interviewed in Life does not lose its value, now twenty year old men, were also interviewed by Sorious Samura in Cry Freetown , when they were still child soldiers. Cry Freetown is a documentary produced in 2000 with the assistance of CNN Productions and Insight News Television.