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Directed and Produced by Anne Aghion
80 min.,Kinyarwanda with English subtitles, USA 09

When peace comes how do you make it right again? An epic emotional journey in search of coexistence in Rwanda.

Could you ever forgive the people who slaughtered your family? In 1994 Rwanda’s Hutu populace was incited to wipe out the country’s Tutsi minority massacring lifelong friends and family. In 1999 the government began the Gacaca, open-air hearings with citizen-judges meant to try their neighbors and rebuild the nation. As part of this experiment in reconciliation, tens of thousands of confessed genocide killers were sent home from prison while traumatized survivors were asked to forgive them and live side-by-side. Filming over a decade in a tiny rural hamlet, Emmy Award winner Anne Aghion has charted the impact of the emotional journey to coexistence.  
 
Multiple award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion has been praised as a documentarian who succeeds in conveying a strong sense of the people and places she covers. After a decade at The New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune in Paris, she started making films. She just completed MY NEIGHBOR MY KILLER, a feature-length film on the Gacaca (Ga-CHA-cha) in Rwanda, which she has been filming over the course of nine years. Her other films on Rwanda, GACACA, LIVING TOGETHER AGAIN IN RWANDA? (2003 Unesco Fellini Prize) and 2005 Emmy-winner IN RWANDA WE SAY… THE FAMILY THAT DOES NOT SPEAK DIES have aired on ARTE, on Sundance Channel and on television networks around the world. She also just completed THE NOTEBOOKS OF MEMORY, the third film in the Gacaca Trilogy. Aghion’s previous film, ICE PEOPLE, a feature-length documentary that explores the physical, emotional and spiritual adventure of living and conducting science in Antarctica, premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival, aired on ARTE in France last Fall, and is being released in New York and across the United States, as well as airing on the Sundance Channel this Spring. Aghion shares her time between New York and Paris. She holds a degree in Arab Language and Literature from Barnard College at Columbia University in New York and is th
e recipient of a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship.

 

NY Times review: http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/movies/12neighbor.html?hpw

Film's website: http://www.gacacafilms.com/index.html

"Perhaps the most striking thing about the film is the deep wisdom, sad emotional maturity, and even poetry that seems to issue effortlessly from the mouths of the victims who are, after all, only peasants." (The Hollywood Reporter, 15.05.09) 

"Calmly paced and sensitively shot, with a certain lyricism in its long shots of country life and its spare soundtrack of Rwandan vocal music, Aghion’s powerful film sets the beauty of a country against the unimaginable barbarity what took place here." (Screen Daily, 15.05.09)

Rwandans Judging Genocide, Their Way (by Larry Rohter, The New York Times, 19.06.09)

Cannes IFF
San Francisco IFF
London Human Rights FF
Chicago International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Hamptons International Film Festival
DMZ DOCS Korean International Film Festival
TriContinental Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
Filmfest München
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Silver Docs Documentary Film Festival

 
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Quand vient la paix, comment retisser les liens? Une épopée émotionnelle en quête de coexistence au Rwanda.

Comment accorder le pardon à ceux qui ont tué vos enfants ?  En 1994, au Rwanda, des centaines de milliers de Hutu sont incités à exterminer la minorité tutsi. De la capitale à la colline la plus retirée du pays, les "patrouilles" locales hutu, armées de machettes et d’autres outils improvisés, massacrent sans distinction parents, amis et proches. Sept ans plus tard, en 2001, le gouvernement met en place les Gacaca, des tribunaux de proximité dans lesquels les Rwandais des collines sont appelés à juger leurs voisins. Dans le cadre de cette expérience de réconciliation, les génocidaires ayant avoué leurs crimes sont relâchés, tandis que les survivants traumatisés sont invités à leur pardonner et à vivre à leurs côtés. Filmé sur près de dix ans sur une même colline, Mon Voisin Mon Tueur retrace l'impact de ces Gacaca sur les survivants et les bourreaux. A travers les peurs et les colères, les accusations et les dénis, les vérités floues, l’inconsolable tristesse et l'espoir dans la vie retrouvée, Anne Aghion nous donne à voir le chemin émotionnel vers la coexistence.

Anne Aghion est une cinéaste franco-américaine qui vit à New York. Elle vient de terminer MON VOISIN MON TUEUR, un long-métrage sur la Gacaca (Ga-CHA-cha) au Rwanda, qu’elle a tourné sur près de dix ans.  Ses autres films au Rwanda incluent GACACA, REVIVRE ENSEMBLE AU RWANDA ? (prix Fellini de l’Unesco en 2003), et AU RWANDA ON DIT… LA FAMILLE QUI NE PARLE PAS MEURT (Emmy 2005) ont été diffusés sur ARTE et Sundance Channel, et diffusés dans le monde entier. Elle vient également d’achever LES CAHIERS DE LA MEMOIRE le troisième volet de sa trilogie sur les Gacaca.
En 2008, Anne Aghion réalise ICE PEOPLE, un film co-produit par ARTE, ITVS International et Sundance Channel qu’elle tourne en Antarctique et qui explore les défis personnels et émotionnels de la vie des chercheurs dans cet environnement extrême.
Son premier film, SE LE MOVIO EL PISO – UN PORTRAIT DE MANAGUA remporte un prix au Festival de la Havane en 1996.
Elle démarre sa carrière dans la presse écrite quotidienne, au bureau parisien du New York Times, et à l’International Herald Tribune. Anne Aghion a grandi à Paris. Elle est diplômée de langue et littérature arabes de Barnard College (Université de Columbia) à New York et est lauréate en 2005 de la prestigieuse Fondation Guggenheim aux Etats-Unis.

Film's website: http://www.gacacafilms.com/index.html

 

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