Rwanda pour mémoire

Rwanda pour mémoire is a 2003 documentary film about the Rwandan genocide.

Rwanda pour mémoire
Directed by	Samba Félix N'Diaye
Screenplay by	Samba Félix N’Diaye
Produced by	Les fabriques de la Vanne, CVA Dakar, Arts et Médias d’Afrique, avec le soutien de l’Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie
Cinematography	Raphaël Mulard
Edited by	France Langlois
Music by	Nina Simone, musiques du Rwanda
Release date	2003 (2003)
Running time	68 minutes
Countries	France Senegal

Synopsis

In 1994, between April and July, the massacre of Tutsis and moderate Hutus left one million dead. Instigated by Fest’Africa, a dozen African authors met four years after the events as writers in residence at Kigali, to try to break the silence of African intellectuals on this genocide.

In May 2000, on the occasion of the publication of series of works based on this experience, writers and artists from Africa and elsewhere gathered in Rwanda. Facing up to the scars left by the genocide, Samba Felix N’Diaye manages to find just the right sense of distance to film the inexpressible while nevertheless communicating a message of hope.

Writers in the film include Boubacar Boris Diop, Véronique Tadjo, Benjamin Sehene, Nocky Djedanoum, Koulsy Lamko and Yves Simon, who all participated in a writer in residence program organized in Rwanda in May 2000 by the Fest'Africa literature festival based in Lille, France.

References

• African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA-3.0)