This last year, "Body Team 12" was nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Short. It's tough to watch but is about a team whose job it is to clean up after Ebola outbreaks. Not pleasant stuff by any standard. "Out of the Village" covers much the same material but is fictional...and a lot easier to watch.
The film is about a young boy and his younger sister. When the film begins, they are the only ones left in their small village...and their parents had just died from Ebola. Whether or not they've contracted the illness is uncertain...but what is certain is that the children are terrified when they are taken into custody. Not surprisingly, they soon escape...as they must get home to fulfill their obligation to their parents and their memory.
The film manages to take a tough subject and humanize it as well as present a very watchable and compelling story. Well worth seeing and exceptionally well made.
