Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.

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Cast

Lorenzo Allchurch

Djata

Agyness Deyn

Hannah

Fiona Shaw

Kathrin Fitz

Ross Partridge

Peter

Jonathan Pryce

Colonel Fitz

Greta Scacchi

General Meade

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Pickaxe

Clare-Hope Ashitey

Gaby

Olivia Williams

Sophia (voice)

Vilmos Heim

Frunza Boy