In Rwanda We Say The Family That Does Not Speak Dies
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Genre Documentary Duration | 7.2/10 IMDb Film series The Gacaca Series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 2004 Similar movies Movies about Rwanda, Movies about war crimes, Documentaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In the years following the Rwandan Genocide of the mid-1990s, village tribunals were routinely set up in which perpetrators of war crimes came face-to-face with surviving victims. This documentary examines the life of a Hutu farmer accused and sent to prison for murdering several Tutsi, then returning to his village and maintaining his innocence despite the insistence of his accusers. The film shows the difficulty of reconciliation in a country where the memories of genocide are still so raw.
In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies is a documentary film examining the Gacaca justice process in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Directed by Anne Aghion and produced by Gacaca Productions, this 2004 film won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Informational Programming." Filmed in Rwanda, the language of In Rwanda is Kinyarwanda with English subtitles.
Plot
Set in Rwanda, Anne Aghion, the director, interviews a genocide offender who has been released back into his community, and the victims of the genocide. The film follows how at first, the coexistence between the people who instigated the genocide and the victimized people is unbearable. Many of the victims feel rage toward their former oppressors. But gradually, the victims and oppressors start talking to the camera, and then to each other as they start the difficult task of living with each other. The documentary portrays how the peoples spirits cannot be crushed by the Rwandan Genocide, the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwandas minority Tutsis and the moderates of its Hutu majority by the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi.
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