Na Wewe (2010)

Directed by

Ivan Goldschmidt

Genre

comedy film

Country

Belgium

Runtime

19 min

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During the 1994 Rwandan civil war, a group of people are stopped at a roadblock. They are forced to prove their ethnicity, but the absurdity of the situation becomes clear.

tensedarkly funnyabsurdcompactsatiricalbleakurgent

What happens

Na Wewe (You Too) is a 2010 Belgian live action short film. The film's runtime is approximately 19 minutes, starring Renaud Rutten and Fabrice Kwizera. It was directed by Ivan Goldschmidt, written by first-timer Jean-Luc Pening, and produced by Goldschmidt, Pening, Dries Phlypo and Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem. The film was shot in the summer of 2009. It is set in Rwanda in 1994, during the civil war between Hutus and Tutsis and exposes the absurdity of ethnic conflicts. It's a "compact story about identity that's both tense and darkly funny". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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