by Jenny Soffel LONDON (CNN) -- One of the most eagerly awaited films to come out of Africa in recent years, starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor, is hitting the big screen. "Half of a Yellow Sun" recently premiered at Toronto's International Film Festival. The British-Nigerian production is about the Nigerian civil war -- the Biafran war -- that tore up the country between 1967 and 1970, and is an adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's bestselling novel of the same name. "It is essentially a love story set in the war," the film's Nigerian-born director Biyi Bandele told CNN.
