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Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda? DVD-R (Educational)
	Genre Documentary Rated NR Duration 00:55:00 Product Site http://www.gacacafilms.com Price $ 390.00

Description

For educational use.
The first documentary film in Anne Aghion's award winning series 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.

PRAISE

Winner of the Unesco Fellini Prize.

''What I find extraordinary about Anne's film is that she stayed around and listened long enough. The kind of attention that Rwanda has received after the genocide has been dominated by people who came from the outside, who formed quick judgments about good guys and bad guys.''
—As told to The New York Times, by Alison des Forges, Author - "Leave None To Tell The Story"; Human Rights Watch

“Seminal…”
—Variety

“A remarkable film…”
—Le Nouvel Observateur

“Anne Aghion’s riveting documentary clearly shows the uniqueness and the limitations of this unprecedented experiment… She questions survivors and executioners in a humble and precise way… In the end, we come out with more questions than answers, and that is why this film is so interesting.”
—Libération

“A remarkable documentary…”
—Télécable & Satellite Hebdo

"Excellent" and "riveting"
—LA Weekly

“Anne Aghion films without any preconceptions. With an open, human approach, she wants to understand how one lives with ‘what happened.’”
—Le Monde

“…Don't hesitate for a moment to watch this… An essential film…”
—Radio Suisse Romande

"[These] unpretentious films about Rwanda cover ground not covered in [other films]."
—The Villager

“A fine film which will fuel many lively discussions”
—Educational Media Reviews Online

“The film captures quite precisely much of what is most compelling and unsettling about Rwanda’s quest for justice after genocide – and, more: it captures the feel of Rwanda, the landscape, the texture of the place, the rhythm of speech and movement, the weird brilliance of colors amid the gloom of the spirit. The sense of being there came across so vividly that at times, while watching the film, I found myself having strong smell memories.”
—Philip Gourevitch, New Yorker staff writer. Author of the multiple award-winning bestseller, “We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, Stories from Rwanda.”

Learn more about the film series and read the reviews @ www.gacacafilms.com (top of page).

For individuals wishing to purchase this film for home use, please e-mail anneaghionfilms@gmail.com.

Festivals

• Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris 2008 & 2009)
• Cinema Verite Festival (Paris 2008)
• The New School: Dorothy Hirshon Festival Vera List Center for Art and Politics (NYC 2006)
• Filmhuis Den Haag: In collaboration with the International Criminal Court and the French Embassy (The Hague 2005)
• FOKAL: Fondation Connaissance et Liberté (Port-au-Prince 2005)
• 7th International Meeting of Cinema and History Film Festivals (Istanbul 2004)
• 5th Documentary Film Month: French Ministry of Culture: Arradon Médiathèque (2004)
• Saint-Étienne Médiathèque (2004)
• Torino International Women’s Film Festival (2004)
• Journées cinématographiques de Carthage (Tunisia, 2004)
• Festival International du film francophone de Namur (Belgium, 2004)
• Vancouver International Film Festival (2004)
• Human Rights Night Film Festival (Italy 2004)
• Amakula Kampala International Film Festival (Uganda 2004)
• Oxford University Films on Rwanda (2004)
• Afrika Film Festival (Belgium 2004)
• Vues d’Afrique (Montréal 2004)
• University Context (Rome 2004)
• Documentaires sur grand écran (Paris 2004)
• Pioneer Theater (theatrical release - NYC 2004)
• Milan African Film Festival (2004)
• 4th Annual Human Rights Night (Bologna 2004)
• Cinéma du Réel (Paris 2004)
• Statens Historiska Museum (Stockholm 2004)
• The 1st International Film Festival of Human Rights (Barcelona 2003)
• Campus Plein Sud, University of Brussels (2003)
• Common Ground Film Festival (Washington DC 2003)
• 46th Leipzig International Festival for Documentary (Germany 2003)
• 17th Leeds International Film Festival (UK 2003)
• Festival Medias Nord-Sud (Geneva 2003)
• Mediterraneo Video Festival (Salerno 2003)
• Three Continents International Documentary Film Festival (Johannesburg 2003)
• Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (NYC 2003)
• Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington DC 2004)
• Cinema FilmHuis (Amsterdam 2003)
• Sundance at MoMA (NYC 2003)
• Healthnet International (Amsterdam 2003)
• Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government: The Carr Center for Human Rights (2004)
• Amnesty International Film Festival (Amsterdam 2003)
• 25ème Festival International des Films de Femmes de Créteil (Paris 2003)
• Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (London 2003)
• FIPA (France 2003)
• Cinéma féminin (Bordeaux 2002)
• 6th Zanzibar International Film Festival (Tanzania 2002)

Production Credits & Notes

A production of Dominant 7 & Gacaca Productions in association with Planète.

• Director: Anne Aghion
• Producers: Philip Brooks, Laurent Bocahut, Anne Aghion
• Editor: Nadia Ben Rachid
• Photography: Mathieu Hagnery, James Kakwerere
• Sound Recordist: Pierre Camus
• Sound Editor: Anne Marguerite Monory
• Sound Mixer: Stéphane Larrat
• Consultant: Jihan El-Tahri
• Production Administration: Benoit Gryspeerdt, Nadège Hasson
• Translation / Interpretation: Jean Pierre Sagahutu, Pauline Ligtenberg-Mukabalisa, Assumpta Mugiraneza, Jean Damascène Bizimana, Ephrem Gasasira, Stanislas Kanyanzira, Jean de Dieu Karangwa, Geneviève Mukandekezi, Charles Rubagumya, Joseph Ufiteyezu, Mélanie Uwamaliya

The film was supported by a grant from The Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute.

The film was produced with the help of The Sundance Documentary Fund, a program of the Sundance Institute, and with the logistical support of RCN Justice & Démocratie.

Additional support from:

• The United States Institute of Peace
• The Procirep and the French Centre National de la Cinématographie
• The Church Development Service (EED) by means of the ABP (Germany)

Fiscal Sponsor: Film/Video Arts

With the support of the New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program.

Color. 55’. In Kinyarwanda with English subtitles.