Gacaca, Living Together Again In Rwanda
6.8 /10 1 Votes
Director Anne Aghion Genre Documentary Duration | 6.6/10 IMDb Film series The Gacaca Series Country Rwanda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Kinyarwanda with English subtitles Release date 2002 Similar movies Movies about Rwanda, Movies about justice, Documentaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In 1994, more than 800,000 people are killed in the 100-day Rwandan genocide. Years later, the country established the Gacaca Tribunals, citizen-led public hearings that allow victims and their families an opportunity to face accused killers in an effort towards discovery, justice and, ideally, reconciliation. Interviews with those who experienced genocide first-hand, as well as some who perpetrated it, provide an intimate portrait of the tragedy in Rwanda.
Gacaca, Living Together Again In Rwanda? is the first documentary film in a trilogy by Anne Aghion examining the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide. Directed by Anne Aghion and produced by Dominant 7, Gacaca Productions, and Planete, this 2002 film won UNESCOs Fellini Prize. Filmed in Rwanda, the language of Gacaca is Kinyarwanda with English subtitles. In Kinyarwanda, gacaca means "grass", which was the location of the reparation trials in Rwanda.
Plot
The first film in this award-winning trilogy ventures into the rural heart of the African nation of Rwanda. Follow the first steps in one of the world’s boldest experiments in reconciliation: the Gacaca (Ga-CHA-cha) Tribunals. These are a new form of citizen-based justice aimed at unifying this country of 8 million people after the 1994 genocide which claimed over 800,000 lives in 100 days. While world attention is focused on the unfolding procedures, award-winning documentarian Anne Aghion bypasses the usual interviews with politicians and international aid workers, skips the statistics, and goes directly to the emotional core of the story, talking one-on-one with survivors and accused killers alike. In this powerful, compassionate and insightful film, with almost no narration, and using only original footage, she captures first-hand how ordinary people struggle to find a future after cataclysm.
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