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- DirectorRobert FavreauStarsLuc PicardFatou N'DiayeCéline BonnierIn April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who is younger than him, in a period of violent racial conflicts. When the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda begins, Bernard does not succeed in escaping with Gentille to Canada. When the genocide finishes in July 1994, Bernard returns to the chaotic Kigali seeking out Gentille in the middle of destruction and dead bodies.
- DirectorChris ToweyLeah WarshawskiStarsEric KaberaNicole KalisaRodrigues KarekeziFINDING HILLYWOOD chronicles one man's road to forgiveness, his effort to heal his country, and the realization that we all must one day face our past. In Hillywood (Rwanda's film industry named for the country's rolling hills) there is a blossoming film community. As Rwanda is still healing from the wounds of a cultural genocide almost 20 years ago, cinema has become a way for artists to express themselves and create cultural discussion. FINDING HILLYWOOD efficiently introduces the major players who set the beginning of the industry in motion. Eric Kabera founded the Kwetu Film Institute, directed the first Rwandan feature, and created the Rwanda Film Festival. Ayuub Kasasa Mago is a renaissance man within the industry, equally adept at directing, acting, scouting, or "fixing" just about anything a production might need. While it is easy to see that Eric is the heart of the industry, as the film continues Ayuub comes to represent its soul with his all-encompassing passion. FINDING HILLYWOOD is an award-winning documentary that functions as a Rwandan history lesson but also reveals the power of media as a catalyst for cultural healing. The film's final act takes a breathtaking final turn as Hillywood connects the people of Rwanda with the goosebumps of seeing their culture represented on the biggest screen available.
- DirectorNick HughesStarsEric Bridges TwahirwaCleophas KabasitaDavis KagenzaA local Hutu official is persuaded to implement the government's policy against the Tutsi: To completely wipe them out. Josette, a beautiful young Tutsi girl struggles to survive the killing by taking refuge in a church, supposedly protected by the UNO forces. Meanwhile, Josette's brother is hunted down and murdered and her boyfriend rescued by the rebels. But the Hutu Catholic priest betrays Josette's family and only agrees to spare her life is to submit to the nightly violations. By the time she is reunited with her boyfriend, neither of them can face the brutal reality of their situation: she is pregnant and bears the priest's child, which she immediately abandons. 100 Days was shot in Kibuye, the beautiful landscape had been the back drop to some of the worst atrocities in 1994. In Kibuye Church, the site of an actual massacre, Rwanda actors played killers and victims that were only too familiar to them.
- DirectorLee Isaac ChungStarsJeff RutagengwaEric NdorunkundiyeJean Marie Vianney NkurikiyinkaFrom opposing ethnicities, Ngabo and Sangwa are tested when old-timers warn, "Hutus and Tutsis should not be friends." An intense and inspiring portrait of youth in Rwanda, 'Munyurangabo' features Poet Laureate Edouard Uwayo delivering a moving poem about his healing country. Rwanda. Kinyarwanda with English subtitles.
- DirectorAnne AghionThe people of Rwanda attempt to reconcile after the genocide through an open process of admission and forgiveness.
- DirectorKimberlee AcquaroStacy ShermanStarsRosario DawsonA powerful documentary about five women whose lives have been irrevocably altered by the Rwandan genocide. With the country left nearly 70% female in the wake of the massacres, "God Sleeps In Rwanda" is a lucid portrait of the much larger change affected by women in the East African country.
- DirectorGilbert NdahayoStarsMosupyoe BoatamoAlexandre Dauge-RothAndrea GriederThe Rwandan Night is a feature ethno-documentary that is centered around the haunting memories of one of the oldest survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. One night, in the spring of 2006 before a large audience at Mumena stadium in the capital city of Rwanda, Sakindi bears witness to the story of his survival since 1959. Both poetic and moving, Ndahayo's use of original Rwandan music of commemoration, produces a vivid cinematic rendering of this unique voice forcefully testifying to the long ordeal of his people during so many decades before April 1994. Alternating between footage filmed in Kigali during a commemoration night and more recent testimonies of survivors and genocide scholars in the United States, Ndahayos second film creates a fascinating dialog between survivors and those who seek to understand the roots of genocide.
- DirectorJohn ConroyStarsHoward AdelmanKofi AnnanMarie BamuteseTwenty years on from the Rwandan genocide, This World reveals evidence that challenges the accepted story of one of the most horrifying events of the late 20th century. The current president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, has long been portrayed as the man who brought an end to the killing and rescued his country from oblivion. Now there are increasing questions about the role of Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front forces in the dark days of 1994 and in the 20 years since. The film investigates evidence of Kagame's role in the shooting down of the presidential plane that sparked the killings in 1994 and questions his claims to have ended the genocide. It also examines claims of war crimes committed by Kagame's forces and their allies in the wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo and allegations of human rights abuses in today's Rwanda. Former close associates from within Kagame's inner circle and government speak out from hiding abroad. They present a very different portrait of a man who is often hailed as presiding over a model African state. Rwanda's economic miracle and apparent ethnic harmony has led to the country being one of the biggest recipients of aid from the UK. Former prime minister Tony Blair is an unpaid adviser to Kagame, but some now question the closeness of Mr Blair and other western leaders to Rwanda's president.
- DirectorSteven SilverStarsRoméo Dallaire
- DirectorAdrian WarrenStarsRebecca JenkinsMountain Gorilla takes the viewer to a remote range of volcanic mountains in Rwanda, Africa, described by those who have been there as ""one of the most beautiful places in the world"", and home to the few hundred remaining mountain gorillas.
- DirectorJean-Christophe KlotzStarsJalil LespertCyril GueïPatrick RameauAntoine Rives, a young independent journalist, is shooting news about the return of Westerners fleeing human slaughters in Rwanda... He meets Clement, a Hutu student whose Tutsi girlfriend remains stuck in Rwanda. Clement convinces him to go back to Rwanda to look for her, letting him film their trip. They soon discover an unbelievable chaos, where their "pact" is hard to respect... A jump into horror during which Antoine will lose his illusions and become aware of the human tragedy.
- DirectorPeter LeDonneStarsImmaculee LlibagizaImmaculee Llibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994, her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide.
- 2011– 1h6.8 (10)TV EpisodeDirectorMehdi BaJeremy FreyAs the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda approaches, it's time for some of those who lived it to tell their stories. To reveal what really happened and how it was made possible. People like RTLM journalist, Valérie Bemeriki. She's now serving a life sentence for spreading hate and inciting murders. She provides an inside perspective on the role RTLM played - why she did what she did and if she regrets it. People like French national Pierre Galinier, who turned down the chance to be rescued because the French authorities refused to evacuate his Tutsi girlfriend. People like Czech diplomat Karel Kovanda, who describes what was going on inside the UN Security Council while the people of Rwanda were dying. People like James Kabarebe, the current Rwandan Minister of Defence. What happened in Rwanda in 1994 was not simply the spontaneous eruption of inter-ethnic hatred. It was planned genocide, on an industrial scale. Something that was prepared for at least a year in advance. Lists were made. Weapons were collected. RTLM radio spent months conditioning their audience to believe that one sector of their population represented a threat. We follow several characters in different parts of the city, hour by hour, through that first crucial week when the massacre could have been averted. Using aerial reconstructions of Kigali and innovative CGI, we will criss-cross the city, switching from one character's account to the other's.
- DirectorGilbert NdahayoStarsAlexandre Dauge-RothFrancoise KankindiGilbert NdahayoA documentary about four international artists who individually survived the Rwandan Genocide. The film interweaves personal memories of these artists with a historical interview - the first appearance on film of His Majesty Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, who has been in exile in the USA since 1959.
- DirectorGabriel CowanStarsMartin SheenExplores the process of reconciliation and forgiveness in post genocide Rwanda. Through interviews and days of following 4 Rwandans, the story of what led up to the genocide and how the citizens are coping unfolds.
- DirectorVanessa RagoneStarsInés Weinberg de RocaSilvana ArbiaSimon BikindiRwanda, a small country in the heart of Africa, was the scene in 1994 of the last genocide of the 20th century: in only 100 days, almost 1 million people were killed. By the end of that year, the UN established the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, with the aim of judging the perpetrators, amongst them priests, journalists, artists and political leaders. Argentine judge Inés Weinberg de Roca is the only representative from Latin America in this multicultural tribunal, which calls judges from all over the world. A documentalist team traveled to Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda to interview judges, prosecutors, defenders, accused and survivors, and to accompany judge Inés Weinberg de Roca in her first official visit to the country where the African Holocaust took place. The prints of the massacre are present in this documentary where the awesome beauty of Rwanda contrasts with this moving human story.
- DirectorAdam MazoIn Coexist, Rwanda's unprecedented social experiment in government-mandated reconciliation is revealed through the eyes of a diverse range of survivors: victims, perpetrators, and those who bore witness to the 1994 genocide.
- DirectorKatharina von SchroederTells the story of four young Rwandans whose lives were crushed by war and genocide.
- DirectorPatricia BoikoIn 'Reconciling Rwanda' an American College student tells us what most Americans don't know. We meet her fellow Rwandan students who were on opposite sides of the genocide. We journey with them through the picturesque hills, chimpanzee forest and vast lake Kivu. We hear the Rwandan president speak about genocide and reconciliation. Filmed entirely in Rwanda
- StarsPatrick StewartThree-part television documentary about the lives of the 700 remaining mountain gorillas in Africa.