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My Neighbor My Killer

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My neighbor my killer

Could you forgive the people who massacred your family? In the Rwanda of 1994, hundreds of thousands of Hutus were urged to exterminate the country’s Tutsi minority. From the capital to the smallest villages, local ‘patrols’ assassinated life-long friends and family members, usually with machetes and improvised weapons. In 2001 the Government created the so-called ‘Gacaca Courts’, held outdoors, at which the citizens themselves judged their neighbours in an endeavour to reconstruct the nation. As a part of this experiment in reconciliation, confessed genocide perpetrators were sent home from the prison, while their traumatised survivors were asked to forgive and continue living next door to these people. Anne Aghion spent almost a decade following the evolution of these Gacaca Courts and their effect on survivors and murderers.

Year: 2009
Origin: Estados Unidos
Direction: Anne Aghion
Production: Anne Aghion / Gacaca Productions
Photography: James Kakwerere, Linette Frewin, Claire Bailly du Bois, Mathieu Hagnery
Mounting: Nadia Ben Rachid
Lenght: 76 min.
Contact: Gacaca Productions
Tfno: 1 212 254 13 60
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.myneighbormykiller.com