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Gacaca Living togther again in Rwanda?
"Seminal..." —Variety
"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, Editor of "The Paris Review", long-time staff writer of "The New Yorker", and author of the award-winning bestseller, "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, Stories from Rwanda"
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Gacaca... Living Together Again in Rwanda?
Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda? ventures into the rural heart of the African nation of Rwanda. The film follows 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.
 Upcoming Screening
In Rwanda We Say… and Gacaca are at the 2008 Cinema Verite Festival in Paris! Oct. 10–12, 2008.
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Film trilogy on the Gacaca in Rwanda
To reveal the complex process of achieving co-existence after killings of cataclysmic proportions, the final film in this trilogy on the Gacaca justice and reconstruction process in Rwanda focuses on the weekly pre-trial hearings leading up to the community-based Gacaca trials in the same rural hillside community that Aghion’s two previous films focused on.
This essential last chapter in the trilogy will be completed in early 2009, in time for special event screenings during the 15th year commemoration of the Rwandan genocide. Learn more.
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