My Neighbor, My Killer (2009)

Directed by

Anne Aghion

Genre

documentary film

Country

France, United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Survivors and convicted killers from the 1994 Rwandan genocide live in the same small village. The film follows them as they participate in community courts, trying to rebuild their lives together over a decade.

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What happens

My Neighbor, My Killer (French: Mon voisin, mon tueur) is a 2009 French-American documentary film directed by Anne Aghion that focuses on the process of the Gacaca courts, a citizen-based justice system that was put into place in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. Filmed over ten years, it reflects on how people can live together after such a traumatic experience. Through the story and the words of the inhabitants of a small rural community, we see survivors and killers learn how to coexist. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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