Beasts of No Nation: A film about child soldiers

Beasts of No Nation is a film depicting the brutal descent into war in an unnamed West African country, as seen from a child soldier's perspective. It will be the first original feature film by Netflix. The movie is written and directed by Cary Fukunaga and features the British actor Idris Elba in the role of a warlord who trains an orphan as a child soldier - played by a 14-year-old first-time actor from Ghana, Abraham Attah. Nkem Ifejika has been speaking to Cary and Abraham.

(Photo: Abraham Attah. Credit: Netflix)