Upcoming film

To reveal the complex process of achieving co-existence after killings of cataclysmic proportions, this upcoming third film 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. Shot over the course of three years, through the narratives of killers, bystanders and survivors—most of whom have known each other since they were children—spoken at the weekly Gacaca hearings, the film contrasts the collective historical record with the individually narrated experiences of the protagonists. 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.

news & updates

The upcoming third film in the Gacaca trilogy has been selected for the Spotlight on Documentaries section at this year’s Independent Film Week! Sept. 14 – 19, 2008

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

Ice People screenings at the 2008 Scinema Film Festival and airing on SBS in Australia during National Science week! August 16-24.

In the news
Ice People discoveries make worldwide headlines:

"Ice People, not yet released in America, is an important addition to the list of documentaries--An Inconvenient Truth and The 11th Hour among them--that raise public awareness about the dangers of global warming... Highly recommended!"—About.com, August 7, 2008
Read about the discoveries in The New York Times, the Telegraph of London, the International Herald Tribune, and on the National Science Foundation's website.

support

The Swiss Development Cooperation continues to support Anne's work with a new grant in 2008. Oxfam-Novib has also recently came on board as a major funder of the third film—which has also received support from the Compton Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Peter S. Reed Foundation and the Berner Family Foundation. Other in-kind support includes the Hotel Novotel Umubano in Kigali, which has supported the production of Anne's work in Rwanda since the very beginning.

You can make tax deductible donations for the third film in Rwanda at Women Make Movies — the fiscal sponsor for the Rwanda and Ice People projects. Donations can be made directly on the WMM website.