Angelina Jolie on making her harrowing new film 'through the eyes of a child'

I wanted to really know what a child felt, what they looked at, what they focused on.

[I wanted to] bring the audience into her mind.

She continues: You see the 5-year-old happy child become a 9-year-old victim of war.

How can we not be the most concerned about children at war, ineverywar the innocent children?

They took away our individuality, they took away our souls, our beliefs, she remembers.

We are supposedly children of the Khmer Rouge revolution.

We were told we were fearless, and we had power.

They were teaching us to look at the things around us as weapons.

A stick, a knife, an axe, a rock.

Whatever we do with these scenes, its symbolic.

First They Killed My Fatherhits Netflix and a limited number of theaters this Friday.

Watch the films new making-of featurette above.