Gacaca, Living Together Again In Rwanda? (2002)

Directed by

Anne Aghion

Genre

documentary film

Country

Rwanda

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at community-based trials in Rwanda after the genocide. It shows survivors and perpetrators meeting together in public hearings to discuss what happened and work toward reconciliation.

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What happens

Gacaca, Living Together Again In Rwanda? is the first documentary film in a trilogy by Anne Aghion examining the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. Directed by Anne Aghion and produced by Dominant 7, Gacaca Productions, and Planète, this 2002 film won UNESCO's Fellini Prize. Filmed in Rwanda, the language of Gacaca is Kinyarwanda with English subtitles. In Kinyarwanda, gacaca means "short grass", which denotes the outdoor public location of the perpetrator trials in Rwanda. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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