Produced by a group of well - known filmmakers, such as Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, this movie
stars former child soldiers and lost boys, as well as the children of real - life Sudanese refugees.
There's certainly no disputing that one of the breakout
stars of Cannes this year is Antonythasan Jesuthasan, a
former child soldier with the Sri Lankan militant group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who fled the country in the late 1980s and eventually made his way to France, where he became an acclaimed playwright, essayist and novelist.