Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)

 

Release date: May 16, 2014

Director: Biyi Bandele

Writer: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (novel), Biyi Bandele (screenplay)

Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose

Estimated budget: N/A

Worldwide: $54,529

 

Sisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.