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- From opposing ethnicities, Ngabo and Sangwa are tested when old-timers warn, "Hutus and Tutsis should not be friends." An intense and inspiring portrait of youth in Rwanda, 'Munyurangabo' features Poet Laureate Edouard Uwayo delivering a moving poem about his healing country. Rwanda. Kinyarwanda with English subtitles.
- 'I Have Seen My Last Born' is about Rwanda in transition from its difficult and violent past towards development, seen through the life of a man who juggles the roles of father and a son, between the city and the village.
- It follows Eva, who is kidnapped by a stranger and raped. Her aunts agree to a forced marriage, and when she finds a confidant in the man's cousin, she discovers the family's traumatic past.
- Dan is a family man and a successful yet humble bishop whose marriage with the controversial Jane is constantly under scrutiny. When unsuspected foes threaten their family and their life accomplishments, Dan and Jane must fight to prevent them from destroying everything they worked so hard for.
- A mother trying to cope the loss of her son gradually distances herself from her husband; a criminal introduces his son to a life of living by his wits; and a young woman is taking care of the ailing father she never truly loved.
- In a desolate world void of love and honesty, where betrayal and obstacles dominate, articulating her life becomes an arduous task. Yet, amidst the haze, she tenaciously clings to hope, yearning for the promise of a clearer and brighter tomorrow, braving the storm of foggy days. Each step is a testament to her resilience, each day a battle against the shadows of her past, she perseveres with unwavering strength, an enduring beacon in the quest for a genuine connection and a life defined by sincerity.
- After being imprisoned for the killing of ethnic Tutsis during the Rwandan genocide, Manzi must face the emotional and psychological consequences of his most personal crime: the murder of his best friend's family.
- In the near future, time travel tourism allows vacationers to travel back in time to experience moments of historical significance. When mild-mannered Frank visits a time travel agency to inquire about a trip, he is offered the "ultimate" thrill - an opportunity to go back in time to participate in a murder. But what was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime turns into an unimaginable nightmare, with only one way out.
- Balthazar is a young African filmmaker on the brink of directing his first project, The Cycle of the Cockroach, a fictional story about a young woman who survived unspeakable atrocities only to find herself committed to the same mental institution as a man driven insane by the crimes he perpetrated during the war. Potential funders for the film insist the themes are too bleak and pessimistic-they encourage Balthazar to make a "message" film that raises awareness about gender-based violence or HIV/AIDS instead. But he refuses to give up. Instead of telling his production team the news, Balthazar continues preparations for the film without financing or equipment. After rehearsing a scene with each of the characters, reality blurs and scenes from the script materialize, provoking the question: Can a film like this exist only in the director's dreams? Armed with a daring and creative visual language, writer/director Kivu Ruhorahoza boldly grasps at the illusory trick of representation in the wake of trauma and its ensuing madness. Paralleling the protagonist in his film, Ruhorahoza's debut marks the very first feature-length narrative film directed by a Rwandan filmmaker living in his homeland.
- Mugwaneza Alice was born, she was diagnosed with a serious mental disability but her family was poor and could not afford the treatment that was required. Alice continue to grow with disability and when she was 17 she was raped, impregnated, and gave birth to a boy. Her mother struggled a lot to take care of both the daughter and her son while trying hard to teach her about reproductive health. Now that the boy has grown. Alice is able to attend a nun's training class where they teach the youth who were born with disability different basic lessons to help them adapt to society.
- Mariam's marriage turns upside down after a strange boy secretly follows her home and refuses to leave.
- Gatera Rudasingwa was born into a hardscrabble life deep in Rwanda's lush-green countryside. His family's home had no electricity, not even a proper bathroom. He attended no schools because there were no schools to attend. Gatera could only hope to imagine of one day having a real bed from which to sleep in and cast his dreams. Infected with deadly malaria at 6-months-old, a nurse's misguided syringe injected him with a single dose of a simple quinine curative. She accidentally pierced his sciatic nerve. His right leg began weakening, his muscles withering and wasting away. Within days he couldn't stand. He could only crawl, dragging his right leg behind him. Everyone knew that Gatera would never walk. But Gatera wasn't everyone. And Gatera could still dream. Torn from his parents during the Rwandan civil war, he was forced to live under the guardianship of his grandfather, who put his disabled 4-year-old grandson to work shepherding his cows. With only a makeshift wooden stick as his crutch, Gatera labored for ten years, all the while questioning why other children, both able-bodied and disabled, were allowed to go to school and better their lives but he was not. And so Gatera escaped to Gatagara, Father Fraipont's school for disabled children. There, with the horrors of the Tutsi genocide ravaging his country, and the deaths of his family among the thousands of atrocities, he felt embraced in love, wisdom, faith and inspiration for the very first time in his life. The discarded boy who so many believed was fated to only being able to crawl soon discovered his life's calling ignited: Gatera would dedicate himself to learning all there was to know about creating artificial limbs. He'd help others like himself, and the survivors of the Tutsi genocide so much less fortunate, to walk surefooted, stand strong and tall, and even dance. This is the inspiring true story of the man part visionary, part philanthropist, part entrepreneur, and part philosopher. Joining hands in marriage with his beloved Mami, his kindred spirit and soulmate from Japan, they dedicate the next 23-years of their lives creating Project: ONE LOVE, an artificial limb factory and non-profit charity built brick-by-brick by hand atop a plot of government-donated swampland. Together, their sheer strengths of character, their unwavering belief in their mission, and their ever enduring faith that the sun also rises are put through an ultimate test when on Christmas eve a thundering, unrelenting six-hour torrential downpour floods, consumes and completely destroys their entire life's work.
- This feature length documentary, Mzungu, is our story about personal change, sacrifice, adventure, and ultimately the power of love and community. You will embark on a journey into the great joys and perils of Africa through the eyes of four-young-naive and unassuming Americans. As we join Scott, Eric, Dan, and Adam on their crusade to 'save the world', you too may just fall in-love with Uganda and Rwanda, meet some new friends, and change your life for the better. These young men aren't on a vacation, they have gone to work hard, to 'help', doing what they know best. They will visit Internally Displaced People camps and witness the short and long term effects of genocide and tribal wars. They gain a new understanding of the immense devastation HIV/AIDS is creating across the continent of Africa.. But in the course of making life- long friends, as well as, facing the loss of life, the viewer is on this journey as well. We hope you will also laugh, cry, sing, dance, and in the end leave Africa completely different people. In a time when social entrepreneurs and global issues rule the media, this documentary is a truly raw and real look into a once-in-a-lifetime journey that turns into an entire world of friends working together. The power of this film lies in the questions it forces us to ask ourselves. Are we doing enough, what if it's too hard to help people, what does it mean to love people we've never met? Yet, in the end, you too will may start to believe the world can be a better place and that it is up to you to change it!
- A comedy pilot created by Matthew Leutwyler, Erik Palladino (ER, SUITS), and Vincent Ventresca (THE INVISIBLE MAN, "Fun Bobby" on FRIENDS), loosely based on their own lives - If they took their lives to Rwanda to become "Volunteers." We will be the first "Hollywood" comedy series to be shot in Africa.
- The true story of the Nyange school students in Rwanda, attacked by rebels in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide. Their refusal to betray each other cost some of them everything, but gave hope to a nation.
- A story of triumph, survival,hope, and a lesson in how to forgive and live, through the eyes of a mother whose grief gives hope and a lesson in how to forgive and live; an artist who chose to forgive rather than seek revenge. A group of young mean and women whose determination and hard work has given the Rwandan culture a new dimension of Identity and celebration. Through these characters and others, we bear witness to how the nation rose above the ashes of a horrific 1994, to become a world model of post-conflict peace and unity.
- A modern Rwandan nurse rediscovers her rural heritage while helping community health workers educate the disadvantaged.
- A survivor of the Rwandan genocide resurfaces to confront his parents' murderers, and provides himself and his beloved ones peace.
- After a long time of unhappy marriage, an old couple is struggling to restore their past relationship at a critical moment left of their lifetime.
- Kwame, an African man, wants to travel outside of his compound, but he must first get a visa from a Caucasian gatekeeper who controls movements in-and-out of the house. It is only with the help of a Caucasian girlfriend that he succeeds.
- 'Lake Women' is about a strong, determined woman who finds treasure on Lake Kivu, and begins a quest to form the first Rwandan fisherwomen's group ever.
- 2014 marked the twentieth anniversary of a horrible crime against humanity. In Rwanda April 7 is Memorial Day, commemorating the genocide. July 4, Liberation Day, celebrates the genocide's end. Our film was made during that time. It is the portrait of three young adults. Gerard (19) Odette (22), and Shenge (24) have different goals in life. Gerard, who was conceived in rape, wants to find his real parents. Odette, who wants to study psychology, believes in articulating her own trauma, while Shenge uses music and film in order to transport her own story to the world. Ibyiza Birimbere does not explain the genocide, nor is it political. It is a film about people whose eyes flicker against a brighter horizon.
- Jean Luc, a 30-year-old man from Belgium, has never met his Rwandan father. When his mother falls ill, he travels to Rwanda to find him, armed with only a portrait and the name of the place where his parents met. Surprisingly, Bonheur speaks Kinyarwanda, making communication easy. However, things get complicated when he meets Olive, a beautiful fisherwoman, and develops romantic feelings for her.
- Neza, a girl whose painful past has been forged, is fighting an uphill battle to change her destiny and that of her mother, who has bipolar disorder. On the other end, Jado, the model of a "spoiled" child, must defeat his worst enemy - drugs - while at the same time nurturing his romantic relationship with Neza.
- April 10th, 1994. Killers stormed a convent in of the small hill towns of Rwanda. They selected two hundred Tutsis from the group and executed them behind this convent. Behind This Convent is the story of from the point of view of survivors who have witnessed the darkest hour of the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
- A young woman is facing the enduring conflicts between what is traditional and what is modern in Rwandan Society.
- WERA is a family drama about Mbanzamihigo, a village chief, who learns that his daughter, Uwera, has brought a curse upon his village. He must confront his wife Nyirantaho and his adviser Nkundabagabo in hopes of making a decision that saves both the village from an imminent draught and her daughter from execution by drowning.
- The Way of the Person is a short film profiling the lives of three young adults living in Rwanda. I chose to focus on this age group because after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, 70% of the population now falls under the age of 25. Each of the young adults profiled are living in very different environments in the country. Musa, twenty-three years old, is a fisherman and has been fishing for the last ten years, starting at the age of 10. He lives in Gisenyi, a growing lake town right on the border of Congo. Naomi, the only woman in this piece, is a twenty-two year old single mother who lives in Nyamata, a small rural town about an hour from the capitol. In Kigali we meet a group of four young men that go by the name of Co-Boyz Crew (Mega Cruzza, Eric, Sober, Pazzo). They all work in the market together but their passion lies with rap and hip-hop. Each of these individuals live completely different lifestyles in very contrasting areas yet they all embody post genocide Rwanda.
- Cynthia was born with mental disability that causes her to drool. Just after the birth of Cynthia, Cynthia's mother left her to her mother to look after her. After Cynthia was diagnosed with the problem, the doctor recommended the family to take Cynthia abroad for treatment, but the family could not afford it. Her grandmother continued to raise her enduring mistreatment, insults and isolation Cynthia had to face from children her age every single day. Her grandmother was also always worried that Cynthia would one day get raped of face any other violence due to her condition. As a growing girl, her grandmother tries to teach her about her reproductive health though it is not easy. Despite all this, Cynthia is an active girl like any other child who was born without disability, she plays and can do domestic chores.
- Manzi David, a man whose sister's days are numbered with heart disease. Heartbroken and determined as ever to rally money for her treatment, Manzi David sets himself on a path of no return when he takes on two of the country's most notorious casino bosses in a lethal bet.
- An opinionated moto driver's sanity is pushed to the edge when a total lockdown confronts him with the void in his life
- Mnemosyne is a eulogy by a grieving and nostalgic man for a mysterious girl he met when he was desperate and anxious about life. The meeting brought hope and since then, they briefly enjoyed each other's company till the girl's complicated past and the unfairness of life took over and grabbed her away.
- An arrogant, young DJ who finds out he is HIV positive.
- In a time of fleeting innocence, Jeannette finds herself on the precipice of womanhood. At the tender age of 16, the weight of unexpected motherhood awaits her. She takes us on a journey through her past.
- Tharcise was born deaf. After his parents died he was adopted in a very poor family but after some time an organization that supports youths who live with a disability helped him and taught him how to make shoes. Now his life has changed as he can be able to make shoes, sell and earn some money to support himself and his adoptive mother. It has also boosted his morale.
- After killing her father, teenage Luna runs away from home to find the mother who left her.
- A glimpse into day-to-day life at a florist's shop in Kigali, Rwanda.
- Bwiza is young woman who has to choose between two men, a successful businessman from the city, who has bright future, or her childhoods friend who has nothing to offer but sweet nothings.
- Defore entering the in the cooperative i was that woman who that every thing have to be done by man.
- A touching story of a blind artist, Hagenimana Fabien, a talented guitarist and music teacher, sharing the story of his life, his passion and dreams about music