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Description
My Neighbor My Killer is a feature length documentary film.
When peace comes, how do you make it right again?
An epic emotional journey in search of co-existence in Rwanda.
Could you ever forgive the people who slaughtered your family? In 1994, hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus were incited to wipe out the country’s Tutsi minority. From the crowded capital to the smallest village, local ‘patrols’ massacred lifelong friends and family members, most often with machetes and improvised weapons. Announced in 2001, and ending this year, the government put in place the Gacaca Tribunals—open-air hearings with citizen-judges meant to try their neighbors and rebuild the nation. As part of this experiment in reconciliation, confessed genocide killers are sent home from prison, while traumatized survivors are asked to forgive them and resume living side-by-side. Filming for close to a decade in a tiny hamlet, award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion has charted the impact of Gacaca on survivors and perpetrators alike. Through their fear and anger, accusations and defenses, blurry truths, inconsolable sadness, and hope for life renewed, she captures the emotional journey to coexistence.
PRAISE:
Nominated for a 2009 Gotham Award.
Winner of the Nestor Almendros Prize for courage in filmmaking in June 2009.
An Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009.
"Brilliant" One of the best documentary films of 2009
—About.com Guide to Documentaries
“Remarkable”—Lee Marshall, Screen International
“Excellent”—Peter Brunette, Hollywood Reporter
“Quietly devastating”—Ken Turran, Los Angeles Times
“Worth Your Time”—Newsweek
“An historic document of incalculable value, but also a superbly shot work of cinema”—Agence France Presse
Read the reviews @ www.myneighbormykiller.com (top of page).
Individuals wishing to purchase this film, please visit www.myneighbormykiller.com.
Festivals
-- 2009 Film Festivals --
• Cannes Film Festival - Official Selection
• Human Rights Watch International Film Festival - Nestor Almendros Prize
• Festival des Libertés (Brussels)
• 11th Mumbai Film Festival
• Ojai-Ventura Int'l Film Festival (CA)
• Free Zone Film Festival: Slobodna Zona (Begrade)
• DMZ DOCS Korean International Film Festival
• Chicago International Film Festival
• United Nations Association Film Festival @ Stanford University
• SLC Film Center (Salt Lake City)
• Vancouver International Film Festival
• Hamptons International Film Festival (NY)
• Amahoro Film Festival (Brussels)
• Global Voices @ Harvard University
• TriContinental Film Festival (South Africa)
• Melbourne International Film Festival
• Filmfest München
• Silver Docs Documentary Film Festival (Washington DC)
• 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival
Production Credits & Notes
My Neighbor My Killer is a production of Gacaca Productions.
80 minutes. Stereo. DVD-R
• Produced & Directed by Anne Aghion
• Edited by Nadia Ben Rachid
• Camera by James Kakwerere, Linette Frewin, Claire Bailly du Bois, Mathieu Hagnery, Simon Rittmeier
• Sound Recording by Richard Fleming, Pierre Camus
• Sound Editing by Roland Duboué, Dolorès Jordi, Anne-Marguerite Monory
• Sound Mix by Nathalie Vidal, Yves Servagent
• Translation by Assumpta Mugiraneza
• Music: “Imyoma”, ”Bakobwa mwirira”, ”Mbahoze Nte?” by Florida Uwera, Production Centre Universitaire des Arts, Université nationale du Rwanda. ”Trompes Amakondera” recorded by Jos Gansemanns, Editions Fonti Musicali – Claude Flagel. ”Kana” by Cécile Kayirebwa, Courtesy of Ceka I Rwanda – Cécile Kayirebwa.
Produced with the support of:
• The Federal Service of Foreign Affairs of Belgium
• The Compton Foundation
• The New York State Council on the Arts
• Oxfam-Novib
• The Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation
• The United States Institute of Peace
The Producer wishes to thank:
• The Austrian Development Cooperation
• The Guggenheim Foundation
• The Peter S. Reed Foundation
• RCN Justice & Democracy
• The Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute
• The Sundance Documentary Fund, a program of the Sundance Institute
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