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- 'I Have Seen My Last Born' is about Rwanda in transition from its difficult and violent past towards development, seen through the life of a man who juggles the roles of father and a son, between the city and the village.
- From Toms Shoes to international adoptions, from solar panels to U.S. agricultural subsidies, drawing from over 200 interviews filmed in 20 countries, Poverty, Inc. unearths an uncomfortable side of charity we can no longer ignore.
- The impossible triumph of Team Rwanda.
- Kunyaza is the name for the technique through which Rwandese women manage to ejaculate. In this tiny African country female orgasm is a matter of honor for men. This documentary, led by a young woman who is a radio star, offers a trip through the villages to recover, with humor and spontaneity, old local traditions about this culture of feminine pleasure: a millennial art that, however, some try to eradicate.
- Four modern stories of remarkable courage while setting out to uncover the forgotten life of Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term 'genocide'. Inspired by Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, 'A Problem From Hell', 'Watchers of the Sky' traverses time and continents to explore genocide and the cycle of violence.
- In 1997, a group of lawyers and activists prosecuted rape as a crime against humanity. This is the story of their fight for the first conviction.
- The Democratic Republic of Congo has been called a geological scandal due to its mineral rich soil. Unfortunately, those minerals, necessary to sustain today's technology, are funding the deadliest war since WWII.
- "Beyond Right & Wrong" looks at areas of conflict around the world and asks what it takes to forgive, and what it takes to ask for forgiveness under the most difficult of circumstances. Paired personal interviews of aggressors and victims from Northern Ireland, Rwanda, Israel, and Palestine, BEYOND RIGHT AND WRONG examines anger, understanding, remorse, tolerance, and sometimes clemency. The survivors' stories are haunting and inspiring, and the film is a meditation on justice and its role in national and personal healing.
- A behind-the-scenes look at a basketball youth program set up in Africa by the General Manager of the NBA's Toronto Raptors, Masai Ujiri.
- Beatrice and Purudenci were childhood sweethearts. They planned to be wed. the only problem was, it was 1994 in Rwanda and Beatrice was being hunted. To make matters worse, Purudenci's family were the hunters. This film documents the lives of three couples that married from killer and victim families in Rwanda. In two of the three cases in this film, the victims married into the families that killed their own. The trauma and pain these couples experience is exceptional, and so is the power and resilience of their love for one another.
- Irreverent, bohemian, iconoclastic, Daniele Kihlgren is the rebellious third child of a wealthy family of cement-industry magnates. In the late 90s on board his BMW R80 he visited Santo Stefano di Sessanio, a medieval village perched on the top Abruzzo's rugged mountains. It was love at first sight. He realises that this is the place to develop one of his old ideas: to authentically restore a dilapidated medieval town and turn the entire village into a hotel.The idea is to make profit from the conservation of the landscape rather than from its destruction, as all too often happens in Italy.
- We've sought ease, comfort and wealth - but are people happier with more money? What is the science behind a good life? Following several people over a typical year, "A Small Good Thing" looks at the simple sources of human happiness.
- Three abandoned lives tossed by the winds. One global call to restore families.
- A miraculous apparition. A terrifying prophecy. According to several children, God sent a messenger to Kibeho, Rwanda to warn about an impending disaster, but few heeded the warning. Immaculee Ilibagiza knows the story all too well; her entire family was killed during the genocide, and she survived by hiding in a bathroom with seven other women for three excruciating months. IF ONLY WE HAD LISTENED follows Immaculee as she returns to Rwanda, uncovering the secrets of Kibeho while reconciling with her painful past. Buried beneath the bones of a million victims, a story of faith and hope emerges, and Immaculee reveals that the prophecy of Kibeho is not just a warning for Rwanda, but for the entire world.
- Mugwaneza Alice was born, she was diagnosed with a serious mental disability but her family was poor and could not afford the treatment that was required. Alice continue to grow with disability and when she was 17 she was raped, impregnated, and gave birth to a boy. Her mother struggled a lot to take care of both the daughter and her son while trying hard to teach her about reproductive health. Now that the boy has grown. Alice is able to attend a nun's training class where they teach the youth who were born with disability different basic lessons to help them adapt to society.
- When a suburban father named Randy discovers his teenage daughter is having serious behavioral issues, he immediately begins to search for a way to fix the problem. Earlier at a Christian concert his family had committed to sponsor a girl named Umuhoza in Rwanda. Little did he know this simple act would change he and his family forever. Across the world in Rwanda another dad named William was facing horrible decisions due to the mass genocide that claimed over 800,000 lives. Both fathers were facing great uncertainty and would eventually be connected in America. Through their struggles to provide and protect their families both of their lives would intersect and reveal the power and tapestry of God's love and guidance for our lives. Randy and his daughter would find themselves embarking on a most unlikely trip to Rwanda led by William and his wife. Once there, both families would experience the power of forgiveness and would learn that giving to others is the beginning to healing.
- When the Rwandan genocide broke out in 1994, one American chose to stay in the country and risk everything in hope of saving a few lives.
- This feature length documentary, Mzungu, is our story about personal change, sacrifice, adventure, and ultimately the power of love and community. You will embark on a journey into the great joys and perils of Africa through the eyes of four-young-naive and unassuming Americans. As we join Scott, Eric, Dan, and Adam on their crusade to 'save the world', you too may just fall in-love with Uganda and Rwanda, meet some new friends, and change your life for the better. These young men aren't on a vacation, they have gone to work hard, to 'help', doing what they know best. They will visit Internally Displaced People camps and witness the short and long term effects of genocide and tribal wars. They gain a new understanding of the immense devastation HIV/AIDS is creating across the continent of Africa.. But in the course of making life- long friends, as well as, facing the loss of life, the viewer is on this journey as well. We hope you will also laugh, cry, sing, dance, and in the end leave Africa completely different people. In a time when social entrepreneurs and global issues rule the media, this documentary is a truly raw and real look into a once-in-a-lifetime journey that turns into an entire world of friends working together. The power of this film lies in the questions it forces us to ask ourselves. Are we doing enough, what if it's too hard to help people, what does it mean to love people we've never met? Yet, in the end, you too will may start to believe the world can be a better place and that it is up to you to change it!
- What is a socially acceptable conversation when your family's killer sits down to dinner? 'Unforgiven' explores the interactions between murderers, rapists, thieves and their victims in this documentary exploring the power of restorative justice, forgiveness and reconciliation 20 years after the Rwandan Genocide.
- MAMA RWANDA is the story of two women mixing the wit of motherhood with the spirit of entrepreneurship to overcome extreme poverty. Drocella, a village wife, and Christine, a city widow, represent a new generation of women business-owners transforming post-genocide Rwanda into one of the top ten fastest growing economies in the world. A modern tale of the work/life balancing act, MAMA RWANDA illuminates the remarkable lives of two working mothers in the developing world.
- A story of triumph, survival,hope, and a lesson in how to forgive and live, through the eyes of a mother whose grief gives hope and a lesson in how to forgive and live; an artist who chose to forgive rather than seek revenge. A group of young mean and women whose determination and hard work has given the Rwandan culture a new dimension of Identity and celebration. Through these characters and others, we bear witness to how the nation rose above the ashes of a horrific 1994, to become a world model of post-conflict peace and unity.
- "Unforgivable" is the story of Alice and Emmanuel, two people on opposing sides during the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It reveals what happens when the person who nearly destroyed your life confronts you and asks for forgiveness.
- RWANDA & JULIET is a feature-length documentary that follows ivy league professor emeritus Andrew Garrod to Kigali, Rwanda, where he mounts Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet with Rwandan college students from both Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds. Twenty years have passed since the 1994 Genocide that left 1,000,000 Tutsis dead. Predominantly orphans, the cast of young Rwandans, led by a stunning, strong headed Juliet, tackle their country's past and their own future as hopes, expectations, pasts, personalities and cultures collide as opening night approaches.
- Kwasa and Fils are two Rwandan 20-somethings, born into the hell of a post-genocide nation. The film follows their victories and struggles as they try to find work, fall in love, and deal with the deep wounds of their past.
- 'A Place for Everyone' explores the human geography of a Rwandan village two decades after the genocide. Survivors and killers still live next to each other and a new generation of young Rwandans has grown up in a society that under goes a fragile reconciliation process. Filmed over the course of more than four years, 'A Place for Everyone' provides an intimate portray of two young Rwandans, a girl of the survivors group and a boy of the killers group, in their quest for love and hate, revenge and forgiveness.
- A survivor of the Rwandan genocide resurfaces to confront his parents' murderers, and provides himself and his beloved ones peace.
- Dance Imani Cook-Gist shares the healing power of music and dance in Rwanda, a country devastated by a 1994 genocide in which one million people were slaughtered in 100 days. Traditional dancers, music students and the country's most famous Gospel singer share their experience.
- A documentary film on the life and work of Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga, a Catholic priest and a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. He returned to his country to bring healing, forgiveness and reconciliation to victims and perpetrators alike. He has created a program of reconciliation that over 300 victims and perpetrators have successfully reconciled. A typical healing service when he prays with people in Rwanda, has 25,000-80,000 people in attendance. He lost 45,000 parishioners and 80 members of his own family during the genocide. He has forgiven the man who had his family killed and raised that man's children while he is still in jail. Fr. Ubald, not only preaches forgiveness, but continues to live it. This movie is a movie of hope and inspiration as to how one man's horror can be a catalyst for healing, hope, redemption and reconciliation for thousands in Rwanda and beyond. His message is now spreading throughout Europe and the United States as he travels the world to bring the healing power of forgiveness to others.
- If everyone you loved has died are you still alive?
- Amid so much violence and suffering I had achieved something. Just that. That, and nothing else. Pierantonio Costa, the Italian consul in Rwanda during the genocide, who, at the risk of his own life saved about two thousand people, both westerners and Rwandans. He travelled in and out of the country, passed countless road blocks and all the inevitable risks these involved. He only ceased when once again crossing the border between Rwanda and Burundi he was strongly advised to not come back, to stay at Bujumbura: Pierantonio knew that the meaning behind those words was that he would be killed if he did. On that last journey he saved 375 children. Sixteen years after we follow the story of those moments through the words of Pierantonio
- A remarkable group of Rwandan women defies the devastation of the genocide to form the country's first all-female drumming troupe and open the country's first ice cream shop.
- Explorer/adventurer, Kate Leeming has cycled the equivalent of twice around the world at the Equator. Kate's incredible Expedition - A ten month, 22,040km journey across Africa from Point des Almadies, Senegal to Cape Hafun, Puntland, Somalia in a continuous line. Completed on August 16th 2010, is believed to be a world first achievement. When Kate set off to cycle across Africa, from west to east on a bicycle, she was not only on a physical quest, but also on an odyssey to highlight the development needs of war torn and poverty stricken nations. What she discovered would change her life forever.
- A South African theatre company braves the war-torn regions of Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and former Yugoslavia to share a message of reconciliation. As they ignite a dialogue among people with raw memories of atrocity, the actors find they must confront their homeland's violent past - and their own need for healing. An unlikely investigation into the limits of justice, and a harrowing journey in search of forgiveness, this remarkable true story is as moving as it is complex. Featuring never-before-heard original music by jazz legend Hugh Masekela.
- 'Lake Women' is about a strong, determined woman who finds treasure on Lake Kivu, and begins a quest to form the first Rwandan fisherwomen's group ever.
- Through what began as a group of college guys dissatisfied with the pursuit of the American Dream, The AC Project is simply a one-year journey of experimental living. Growing up as so-called Christians, they heard Jesus offered 'more life,' but Sunday church seemed to fall drastically short of an exciting or meaningful life. The search for more was molded into a trip: 4 young men would briefly step off the American track in order to take 1 year to begin living for people other than themselves. Giving clean water in Fiji, building an orphanage in Belize, helping sex trafficking victims in India, it was going to be a journey in an honest attempt to see life outside the suburban bubble they had grown up in.
- WHEN I WAS YOUNG I SAID I WOULD BE HAPPY is a feature length documentary about the transformation achieved by 12 orphan genocide survivors in Rwanda after participating in a new form of sustainable humanitarian aid called Project LIGHT. Using a train the trainer model, these young people called Ambassadors, were trained to heal their Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and their hearts as well as teach others to do the same. In only two short years they paid forward their healing to hundreds, from Rwanda to Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
- 2014 marked the twentieth anniversary of a horrible crime against humanity. In Rwanda April 7 is Memorial Day, commemorating the genocide. July 4, Liberation Day, celebrates the genocide's end. Our film was made during that time. It is the portrait of three young adults. Gerard (19) Odette (22), and Shenge (24) have different goals in life. Gerard, who was conceived in rape, wants to find his real parents. Odette, who wants to study psychology, believes in articulating her own trauma, while Shenge uses music and film in order to transport her own story to the world. Ibyiza Birimbere does not explain the genocide, nor is it political. It is a film about people whose eyes flicker against a brighter horizon.
- The compelling story of how Rwandans are healing themselves from the trauma of the 1994 genocide - hope for the rest of the world.
- April 10th, 1994. Killers stormed a convent in of the small hill towns of Rwanda. They selected two hundred Tutsis from the group and executed them behind this convent. Behind This Convent is the story of from the point of view of survivors who have witnessed the darkest hour of the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
- A single mom creates an unlikely weapon in the fight for world peace after her best friend, a soldier, is axed in the head by a terrorist. Now she finds herself in the battle of her life challenging corporate giants.
- Through an intimate, long-term observing portrait God is not working on Sunday, eh! narrates about Rwanda of today and its women, standing for a new generation of leaders on the African continent; it narrates about the transformation process from shock-torpor to activism and political participation. The films follows three women-activists from self-empowerment training to confront patriarchal social structures; to the rural area, where the victims are forced to live again shoulder on shoulder with their perpetrators, and where women get organized to break the taboo and speak out loud what they demand. Florida, Godel and Beat pursue their visions determined and self-confident. History is dividing them but the women are struggling for a common goal: reconciliation, equal rights and political and economical power for women.
- The story of a young Hutu man forced to kill his Tutsi family members reveals how warmongering propagandist media manipulated an entire nation into slaughtering their families, friends and neighbors in what became the Rwandan Genocide.
- The Way of the Person is a short film profiling the lives of three young adults living in Rwanda. I chose to focus on this age group because after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, 70% of the population now falls under the age of 25. Each of the young adults profiled are living in very different environments in the country. Musa, twenty-three years old, is a fisherman and has been fishing for the last ten years, starting at the age of 10. He lives in Gisenyi, a growing lake town right on the border of Congo. Naomi, the only woman in this piece, is a twenty-two year old single mother who lives in Nyamata, a small rural town about an hour from the capitol. In Kigali we meet a group of four young men that go by the name of Co-Boyz Crew (Mega Cruzza, Eric, Sober, Pazzo). They all work in the market together but their passion lies with rap and hip-hop. Each of these individuals live completely different lifestyles in very contrasting areas yet they all embody post genocide Rwanda.
- Women Building Peace is the story of women in Africa who are rebuilding their lives and societies after surviving gender-based violence, war and genocide. It looks at some of the root causes behind these atrocities, and how existing matriarchies create more peaceful communities.
- Cynthia was born with mental disability that causes her to drool. Just after the birth of Cynthia, Cynthia's mother left her to her mother to look after her. After Cynthia was diagnosed with the problem, the doctor recommended the family to take Cynthia abroad for treatment, but the family could not afford it. Her grandmother continued to raise her enduring mistreatment, insults and isolation Cynthia had to face from children her age every single day. Her grandmother was also always worried that Cynthia would one day get raped of face any other violence due to her condition. As a growing girl, her grandmother tries to teach her about her reproductive health though it is not easy. Despite all this, Cynthia is an active girl like any other child who was born without disability, she plays and can do domestic chores.
- A single mom creates an unlikely weapon in the fight for world peace after her best friend a soldier, is axed in the head by a terrorist. Only now she finds herself in the battle of her life taking on corporate giants.
- Explore two sides of Lily's life: her international ventures helping to heal weakened spirits in communities around the world and a personal journey within, to repair her own fractured family.
- In one of the most crowded countries on earth, a man searches for another man, with only a single name and a decade old memory to guide him.