Photos of a Gacaca justice process in Rwanda

In Rwanda We Say... The family that does not speak dies

2005 Emmy Award Winner for its broadcast on Sundance Channel.

"An astonishing [film]..." —The Washington Post

"With extraordinary sensitivity, Aghion takes us into the heart of the problem of reconciliation in a post-genocidal society - not with wordy abstractions but with the earthy, real expressions of the people, victims and accused criminals, who must try to live together. Those seeking to know whether reconciliation is possible in Rwanda must look for their answer in this compelling expression of Rwandan voices."
—Alison des Forges, Senior Adviser to the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch

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In Rwanda We Say... The family that does not speak dies

Upcoming!
2008 Cinema Verite Festival
Paris, France (Oct. 10 – 12, 2008) w/ Gacaca

Mémorial de la Shoah (Part of a week-long commemorative event)
Paris, France (22, May, 2008)

The New School, Dorothy Hirshon Festival Vera List Center for Art and Politics
New York, NY, USA (May 9, 2006)

15èmes Rencontres du film documentaire Traces de Vies
Clermont-Ferrand/Vic le Comte, France (November 21-27, 2005)

Filmhuis Den Haag, in collaboration with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the French Embassy
The Hague, The Netherlands (October 9, 2005) w/ Gacaca

Médiathèque de Sartrouville
Paris, France (October 5, 2005)

Civil Violence and War Memories -- Here and Elsewhere
Umam Documentation & Research
Beirut, Lebanon (September 20 - 25, 2005)

Conflict Resolution Film Festival 2005, United Nations
New York (July 21, 2005)

DOKFEST München
Munich, Germany (9-14 May 2005)

Muestra de Cine Africano de Tarifa
Tarifa, Spain (8-15 May 2005)

FOKAL (Fondation Connaissance et Liberté)
Port-au-Prince, Haïti (March 18, 19, 2005)

Festival Cinema Africano
Milano, Italy, (14-20 March 2005)

19th Friburg International Film Festival
Friburg, Switzerland (6-13 March 2005)

Fespaco
Ougadougou, Burkina Faso (26 Feb-5 March 2005)

Les Lundi de l'Ina (Institut national audiovisuel)
Followed by panel discussion with Claude Lanzmann and Rithy Panh Paris, France (7 February 2005)

FIPA
Biarritz, France (18-23 Jan. 2005)

The 7th International Meeting of Cinema and History Film Festivals
Istanbul, Turkey, (10-17 Dec. 2004) w/ Gacaca

5th Documentary Film Month
(French Ministry of Culture)

Arradon Médiathèque
Arradon, France (26 Nov. 2004) w/ Gacaca

Saint-Étienne Médiathèque
Saint Etienne, France (20 Nov. 2004) w/ Gacaca

Goucher College
Baltimore, MD, USA (11 Nov. 2004)

Global Visions Film Festival
Edmonton, Canada (4-7 Nov. 2004)

18th Leeds International Film Festival
Leeds, United Kingdom (28 Oct.-7 Nov. 2004)

47th Leipzig International Festival for Documentary
Leipzig, Germany (19-24 Oct. 2004)

United Nations Association Film Festival
Stanford, CA, USA (22 Oct. 2004)

Common Ground Film Festival
Washington DC, USA (26 Oct. 2004)

Torino International Women’s Film Festival
Torino, Italy (8 -14 Oct. 2004) w/ Gacaca

Festival international du film francophone de Namur
Namur, Belgium (24 Sept.-1 Oct. 2004) w/ Gacaca

Vancouver International Film Festival
Vancouver, Canada (23 Sept.-8 Oct. 2004) w/ Gacaca

Extramundi
Roubaix, France (9-19 Sept. 2004)

Etats Généraux du Documentaire
Lussas, France (15-21 Aug. 2004)

7th Zanzibar International Film Festival
Zanzibar, Tanzania (25 June-4 July 2004)

Common Ground Film Festival
Jerusalem, Israel (22-25 June 2004)

25th Durban International Film Festival
Durban, South Africa (14-27 June 2004)

Human Rights Night Film Festival
Mantova, Italy (27-30 May 2004) w/ Gacaca

Amakula Kampala International Film Festival
Kampala, Uganda (21-30 May 2004) w/ Gacaca

Movie W
Wageningen, The Netherlands (18 May 2004)

Oxford University Films on Rwanda
Oxford, United Kingdom (16 May 2004) w/ Gacaca

Film Symposium about Rwanda
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (18 Apr. 2004)

Afrika Film Festival
Leuven, Belgium (25 Apr.-10 May 2004) w/ Gacaca

Documentaires sur grand écran (theatrical release)
Paris, France (25 Apr. 2004) w/ Gacaca

Austrian Development Cooperation
Vienna, Austria (22 Apr. 2004)

Vues d’Afrique
Montréal, Canada (16-24 Apr. 2004)

Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (18 Apr. 2004)

Pioneer Theater (theatrical release)
New York, NY, USA (Apr. 2004) w/ Gacaca

Amnesty International Film Festival
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (31 March-4 Apr. 2004)

Visions DC (theatrical release)
Washington DC, USA (Apr. 2004)

Bard College
Annandale on Hudson, NY, USA (6 Apr. 2004)

Belgian Foreign Ministry
Brussels, Belgium (2 Apr. 2004) Premier)

New School University
New York, NY, USA (2 Apr. 2004) (Premier)

Visions DC
Washington DC, USA (29 March 2004) (Premier)

United States Institute of Peace Conference
Washington DC, USA (27 March 2004)

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
London, United Kingdom (20-24 March 2004) (Premier)

International Festival of Films on Human Rights
Geneva (12-18 March 2004) (Premier)

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.

screenings

In Rwanda We Say… and Gacaca are at the 2008 Cinema Verite Festival in Paris! Oct. 10–12, 2008.

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