title: Munyurangabo

type: Backdrop

status: Released

Trailer

site: YouTube

type: Trailer

overview: An orphan of the Rwandan genocide travels from Kigali to the countryside on a quest for justice.

title: Munyurangabo

title: Munyurangabo

overview: Après le vol d'une machette sur le marché de Kigali, Munyurangabo et son ami Sangwa quittent la ville pour un voyage durant lequel leur passé va se mêler. Munyurangabo réclame justice pour la mort de ses parents, tués au cours du génocide, Sangwa, quant à lui, souhaite se rendre à la maison qu'il a abandonné il y a des années.

title: 문유랑가보

overview: 종족 간의 끔찍한 대학살로 고통 받는 르완다를 배경으로 펼치는 두 친구의 이야기다. 문유랑가보는 부모의 원수를 갚기 위해 친구 상그와와 함께 길을 떠난다. 결국 상그와는 오래 전 떠난 고향집으로 돌아가게 되고 문유랑가보는 홀로 복수의 길을 떠난다. 이 여행을 통해 두 사람은 자신들의 과거와 화해하고 후투족과 투치족을 맴도는 공포와 증오를 뛰어넘게 된다.

title: Munyurangabo

title: Munyurangabo

overview: Quinze anos após o genocídio, o adolescente ruandês Munyurangabo e seu amigo Sangwa embarcam em uma viagem ao campo e ao passado. Munyurangabo quer vingar seus pais que foram vítimas do genocídio na vila onde moravam, e Sangwa quer voltar para o lugar que deixou para trás.

character: Munyurangabo

type: Cast

character: Sangwa

character: Sangwa's Father

character: Gwiza

character: Poet

character: Sangwa's Mother

character: Ngabo's Father

character: Father's Killer

character: Market Fighter

job: Director

department: Directing

type: Crew

job: Writer

department: Writing

job: Original Music Composer

department: Sound

job: Executive Producer

department: Production

job: Production Manager

job: Props

department: Art

job: First Assistant Director

job: Art Direction

job: Second Assistant Director

job: Associate Producer

job: Co-Producer

job: Sound

job: Editor

department: Editing

job: Producer

job: Production Coordinator

job: Additional Camera

department: Camera

job: Location Assistant

title: Liberation Day


title: The Pardon

type: Poster

overview: After being imprisoned for the killing of ethnic Tutsis during the Rwandan genocide, Manzi must face the emotional and psychological consequences of his most personal crime: the murder of his best friend's family.

title: The Pardon

character: Karemera

character: Manzi

job: Sound Designer

job: Sound Recordist

job: Makeup Artist

department: Costume & Make-Up

job: Director of Photography

job: Director

original_title: Imbabazi

original_language: rw


title: A Place for Myself

overview: At a casual elementary school comes a five year old albino girl, Elikia. Due to her skin color her classmates make her realize that her being 'different' is more a problem than a special trait. While the neighborhood treats her as a stereotype, her mother encourages her. Together, they fight back and raise their voice to find a place for themselves.

title: A Place for Myself

overview: Die fünfjährige Elikia besucht die Grundschule und ist eine eifrige Schülerin. Aber sie ist eine Ausgestoßene, weil sie eine angeborene Pigmentstörung hat, ihre Haut und ihre Haare sind weiß. Sie leidet sehr unter dem  Wort „Albino“, das ihr die Mitschüler hänselnd entgegen rufen. Elikia ist entmutigt, will nicht mehr in die Schule, aber ihre Mutter kämpft für sie. Und schließlich hat sie eine Idee.

title: A Place for Myself

job: Writer

original_title: A Place for Myself


title: Imfura

overview: The ruins of a house represent the remains of the genocide in Rwanda. A young man attempts to remember his mother, who disappeared.

title: Imfura

overview: Gisa vai para a aldeia de Nkora, nativa de sua mãe que desapareceu durante o genocídio. Ele se encontra no meio de um conflito familiar sobre o destino das ruínas de uma casa que sua mãe havia construído.

title: Imfura

overview: Comment prendre la mesure des enjeux liées à la maison en ruine d’une famille victime du génocide rwandais? Un jeune homme revient dans le village natal de sa mère disparue. Il cherche à faire sienne une mémoire collective meurtrie. Des chants psalmodiés sont autant de voix d’une possible réconciliation.

title: Imfura

original_title: Imfura

production_countries: RW CH


title: Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold

overview: Fifty years after the Holocaust, the world allowed another genocide to take place, this time in Rwanda. In April, 1994 the international community, including the U.S., sat by and watched as 800,000 Tutsi men, women and children were massacred. The killings took place under the eyes of UN peacekeepers. Today, Rwanda remains torn by ethnic killings.  Shot over three years, CHRONICLE OF A GENOCIDE FORETOLD follows several Rwandans before, during, and after the genocide.

title: Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold

original_title: Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold


title: Inkotanyi

overview: For the first time, light is shed on the Inkotanyi politico-military movement that ended the genocide of the Rwandan Tutsi in 1994 and is led by Paul Kagame, currently President of Rwanda.

title: Inkotanyi

title: Inkotanyi : Paul Kagame et la tragédie rwandaise

overview: Rwanda, juillet 1994. La rébellion la mieux entraînée du continent africain met fin au dernier génocide du 20e siècle, celui des Tutsis du Rwanda. À leur tête, l’actuel président du Rwanda : Paul Kagame. Leur nom : les Inkotanyi. Formés dans la rébellion ougandaise de Yoweri Museveni au début des années 1980, les Inkotanyi ont bouleversé la région des Grands Lacs depuis 30 ans.

character: Himself

job: Music

original_title: Inkotanyi

production_countries: BE FR


title: Neptune Frost

name: Mark Kermode reviews Neptune Frost (2021) | BFI Player

type: Featurette

Official US Trailer

key: acfBNIXovww

key: VpcbmqTFJuQ

name: Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman on Neptune Frost

name: NEPTUNE FROST Cinema Intro + Q&A | TIFF 2021

Festival Clip

type: Clip

overview: In the hilltops of Burundi, a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry.

title: Neptune Frost

title: Neptune Frost

overview: Hauts plateaux du Burundi, de nos jours. Après la mort de son frère, Matalusa, un mineur de coltan, forme un collectif de cyber-pirates anticolonialistes. Évoluant dans une société autoritariste où la technologie règne en maître, il rencontre alors Neptune, un.e hacker intersexe. De leur union va naître une insurrection virtuelle et surpuissante.

title: 해왕성 로맨스

overview: 어느 공상 세계의 전자 폐기물 쓰레기장. 반식민주의 해킹 집단은 일대의 천연자원과 사람들을 착취하는 권위주의 정권을 전복하고자 한다. 탈출한 채굴 노동자와 인터섹스 도망자는 서로를 마주하고, 이들의 결합은 거대하고 신성한 전기회로에 결함을 촉발한다.

title: Neptune Frost

overview: En un campamento de desechos electrónicos, un colectivo de hackers subversivos intenta tomar el control del régimen autoritario que explota los recursos naturales de la región, y a su gente. Cuando un fugitivo intersexual y un minero de coltán fugado se encuentran guiados por un sueño común, su conexión provoca fallos en el circuito divino mayor. Un ciber-musical con una visión radicalmente audaz del poder, la explotación y el amor.

title: Neptune Frost

overview: A film egy interszexuális afrikai hacker, egy koltánbányász és az egyesülésük eredményeként született virtuális csoda.

title: 海王星霜冻

overview: 在布隆迪的山区，一群逃脱的钶钽铁矿矿工组成了一个反殖民主义的计算机黑客团体。从他们位于超凡脱俗的电子垃圾堆中的营地出发，他们试图推翻剥削该地区自然资源和人民的专制政权。当一名性别流动的逃亡者与一名逃脱的钶钽铁矿矿工通过宇宙力量相遇时，他们的联结在更宏大的神圣电路中引发了阵阵故障。

title: Neptune Frost

title: Neptune Frost

overview: Sulle colline del Burundi, un gruppo di minatori di coltan fuggiti forma un collettivo di hacker informatici anticolonialisti. Dal loro accampamento in una discarica di rifiuti elettronici ultraterrena, tentano di prendere il controllo del regime autoritario che sfrutta le risorse naturali della regione e la sua popolazione. Quando un fuggitivo intersessuale e un minatore di coltan fuggito si incontrano grazie a forze cosmiche, la loro connessione innesca anomalie nel più ampio circuito divino.

title: Нептун Фрост

title: 海王星霜凍

overview: 在布隆迪的山區，一群逃脱的鈳鉭鐵礦礦工組成了一個反殖民主義的計算機黑客團體。從他們位於超凡脱俗的電子垃圾堆中的營地出發，他們試圖推翻剝削該地區自然資源和人民的專制政權。當一名性別流動的逃亡者與一名逃脱的鈳鉭鐵礦礦工通過宇宙力量相遇時，他們的聯結在更宏大的神聖電路中引發了陣陣故障。

character: Neptune

character: Matalusa

character: Memory

character: Neptune (1)

character: Elohel

character: Psychology

character: Potolo the Avatar

character: Head Nun

character: Binya

character: Sky News Emilia

job: Production Design

job: Makeup Designer

job: Sound Re-Recording Mixer

job: Executive Producer

job: Costume Design

title: Нептун Фрост

title: Нептун Фрост


title: Fish Bowl

overview: After being confronted by his uncle on the night before his mother’s burial, an introverted artist is abruptly faced with his unforeseen feelings for a close friend.

title: Fish Bowl

character: Emmanuel

character: Sheja Amanda

character: Uncle

character: Pastor

job: Editor

original_title: Fish Bowl


title: Mnemosyne

overview: Mnemosyne is a eulogy by a grieving and nostalgic man for a mysterious girl he met when he was desperate and anxious about life. The meeting brought hope and since then, they briefly enjoyed each other’s company till the girl’s complicated past and the unfairness of life took over and grabbed her away.

title: Mnemosyne

job: Cinematography

department: Crew

job: Sound

original_title: Mnemosyne


title: À mots couverts

overview: Twenty-five years after the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda, filmmakers visit a country still haunted by the massacres of spring 1994. A group of inmates try to understand what made their participation in the fourth genocide of the 20th century possible. In Kigali Prison, some testify about their abuses against Tutsis. Directed by Violaine Baraduc and Alexandre Westphal as part of a thesis on the participation of women during the genocide, the film questions the generalization of violence to all layers of Rwandan society.

title: À mots couverts

overview:
Dans l’enceinte de la prison centrale de Kigali, huit femmes incarcérées témoignent. Vingt ans après le génocide perpétré contre les Tutsi rwandais, Immaculée et ses codétenues racontent leur participation aux violences, retracent leur itinéraire meurtrier et se confient.
 À l’extérieur, Jérôme, le fils d’Immaculée, occupe une place impossible entre bourreaux et victimes. Né d’un père tutsi, il peine à mettre des mots sur l’histoire qu’il a vécue. La relation qu’il entretient avec sa mère, entre espoir de dialogue et réconciliation impossible, laisse entrevoir les blessures du Rwanda d’aujourd’hui.

title: À mots couverts

original_title: À mots couverts

production_countries: FR RW


title: She

overview: All of her life, Laura has carried a big secret in her heart. But everything changes in one day when she gives in to a chance encounter.

title: She

character: Laura

character: Ange

character: Migambi

character: Camera Woman

character: Model 1

character: Model 2

character: Model 3

character: Model 4

character: Model 5

character: Model 6

character: Model 7

job: Line Producer

job: Story

job: Producer

job: Co-Producer

job: Gaffer

department: Lighting

job: Assistant Camera

job: Boom Operator

job: Costume Designer

job: Props

job: Original Music Composer

job: Sound Mixer

job: Production Coordinator

job: Assistant Production Coordinator

job: Technical Supervisor

job: Driver

job: Production Supervisor

original_title: She


title: Icyasha

overview: A bullied boy tries to join a boys football team.

title: Icyasha

job: Director

job: Writer

original_title: Icyasha


title: Home

overview: A young woman goes back to her native village fleeing from an abusive marriage and looking for emotional support. However, she will find herself facing the hostile attitude of her family and social norms ruling what a real woman should be.

title: Home

job: Sound

job: Production Design

job: Editor

job: Cinematography

original_title: Imuhira

title: Imuhira

country: RW


title: Father's Day

overview: Three family stories intersect in present-day Rwanda: a mother tries to cope with the loss of her son, a young woman takes care of the ailing father she never truly loved, and a small-time criminal prepares his son for a life of living by his wits.

title: Father's Day

title: Father's Day

overview: Im heutigen Ruanda kreuzen sich drei Familiengeschichten: Eine Mutter versucht, mit dem Verlust ihres Sohnes fertig zu werden, eine junge Frau kümmert sich um den kranken Vater, den sie nie wirklich geliebt hat, und ein Kleinkrimineller bereitet seinen Sohn auf ein Leben vor durch seinen Verstand.

character: Zaninka

character: Mukobwa

character: Karara

character: Kadogo

character: Zaninka’s Husband

character: Mukobwa’s Father

job: Makeup & Hair

job: Production Manager

job: Costume Design

job: Casting

job: Producer

job: Executive Producer

job: Director of Photography

job: Assistant Director

original_title: Father's Day


title: Long Coat

overview: Following the story of a genocide survivor as well as son of a killer, the film revolves around the meaning of an old coat and its symbolic value for the young boy’s dramatic past. (African Film Festival, New York)

title: Long Coat

character: Rugamba

character: Claire

character: Herena

character: Petero

character: Yakobo

character: Shyaka

character: Manzi

character: Kamanzi

character: Afande

original_title: Long Coat


title: Tenacity

name: I Bwiza (Tenacity) Official African Trailer| Kinyarwanda| Year TidPix Trailer

overview: Gatoni Maya, a 23-year-old brave girl, is resolved to fulfill her deceased father's dream of making a living through arts.

title: Tenacity

original_title: I Bwiza


title: Bazigaga

overview: 1994, Rwanda. As the genocide rages on, a pastor and his young daughter take shelter in the hut of a feared shaman : Bazigaga. Hunted by the militias and trapped with the strange woman sorcerer, Karembe seeks a way out.

title: Bazigaga

original_title: Bazigaga

production_countries: BE FR GB


title: The Bride

overview: Eva, a young Rwandan woman, dreams of attending medical school. But her aspirations are interrupted when she is kidnapped by a group of men as a part of the Guterura rite of enforced marriage. Abandoned by her family, she struggles to cope with the grim reality of her new life with her new husband Silas and his cousin. While Silas is away working, the two young women form a tender connection as they spend their days doing household chores, beading, making tea, and swapping family histories and memories of the genocide. Despite this newfound ally, Eva contemplates running away to a life of freedom.

title: The Bride

title: The Bride

overview: Història d’un drama col·lectiu del qual van ser víctimes moltíssimes dones a Ruanda: el matrimoni forçat.

title: The Bride

title: The Bride

overview: Eva, een jonge Rwandese vrouw, droomt ervan om geneeskunde te studeren. Maar haar ambities worden abrupt onderbroken wanneer ze wordt ontvoerd door een groep mannen als onderdeel van het Guterura-ritueel, een gedwongen huwelijk. Verlaten door haar familie worstelt ze met de grimmige realiteit van haar nieuwe leven met haar nieuwe echtgenoot Silas en zijn neef. Terwijl Silas weg is om te werken, ontstaat er een hechte band tussen de twee jonge vrouwen. Ze brengen hun dagen door met huishoudelijke klusjes, kralen rijgen, thee zetten en het uitwisselen van familiegeschiedenissen en herinneringen aan de genocide. Ondanks deze nieuwe bondgenoot overweegt Eva om te vluchten naar een leven in vrijheid.

character: Eva

character: Husband's cousin

character: Silas

character: Muhoza Zawadi

character: Eva's mother

original_title: The Bride


title: I Mashoka

name: I Mashoka by Jean Marie Ndihokubwayo and Pascal Capitolin

overview: In 2058, somewhere in Africa, Nijimbere and Kamikazi tell, in front of the camera, a story that happened forty years earlier. The Bagabuzi and Banyamazi are living a cordial harmony, when in 2017, when the global shortage of drinking water makes life difficult, the decontamination of the springs becomes more complicated. A deaf antagonism settles in between the two communities.  In this context of mutual mistrust and hatred, unbeknownst to their families, Nijimbere (a Mugabuzi) and Kamikazi (a Munyamazi) love each other and communicate regularly with the complicity of Mizero, Nijimbere's cousin. But circumstances will soon change the course of their lives and the entire community.

title: I Mashoka

original_title: I Mashoka


title: Ben'Imana

overview: Rwanda, 2012. The country is emerging from an era of silence after the 1994 Tutsi genocide, and people's courts are being set up with the aim of bringing justice and reconciliation. Veneranda, a survivor, is convinced of the need for these trials. Despite pressures, she organises discussion sessions between victims and the families of the executioners. Therapy for some, an act of betrayal for others, these testimonial sessions revive and reveal the traumas that each of them try to overcome, in their own way. The wounds of Veneranda's past are exposed again when she learns of her daughter's unexpected pregnancy and the identity of the father. Veneranda has to face her own contradictions and the dark parts of her past.

title: Ben'Imana

title: Ben'Imana

overview:
Rwanda, 2012. Après le génocide des Tutsis, des tribunaux populaires sont mis en place pour apporter justice et réconciliation.
 Vénéranda, survivante, est convaincue de la nécessité de ces procès. Malgré les pressions, elle organise des séances de discussion entre victimes et familles de bourreaux.
 Mais lorsqu’elle apprend la grossesse inattendue de sa fille, elle doit faire face à ses propres contradictions et aux parts sombres de son passé.

title: Ben'Imana

overview: Ruanda, 2012. Tras el genocidio contra los tutsis, continúan los juicios comunitarios orientados a la justicia y la reconciliación. Vénéranda, superviviente, facilita el diálogo entre víctimas y familias de los responsables para ayudar a reconstruir vidas, pero cuando descubre el embarazo inesperado de su hija, se ve obligada a enfrentarse a los límites de sus propias convicciones.

character: Veneranda

character: Tina

character: Grandmother

character: Suzane

character: Victoire

character: Madeleine

character: Karangwa

character: Ingabire

character: Juge

character: Théodata

job: Co-Writer

job: Original Music Composer

job: Colorist

job: Sound Editor

job: Sound Mixer

job: Co-Producer

original_title: Ben'Imana

production_countries: GA NO RW FR


title: Minimals in a Titanic World

overview: Fresh out of jail, Anita is supposed to control her aggression. Physical warmth, grief and intimacy. Almost without plot, the film draws on light, colour, style, dance and great music to enter a group of friends with someone missing at its heart.

title: Minimals in a Titanic World

title: Minimals in a Titanic World

overview: Tras recibir una advertencia por agresión, la bailarina y aspirante a música Anita regresa de la cárcel para actuar en su bar, donde se entera de la muerte repentina de su novio, Serge. Mientras sus amigos cercanos procesan el shock, Anita encuentra consuelo en la compañía de Shema, la compañera de cuarto de Serge. Mientras lucha con los difíciles recuerdos finales de su novio, Anita debe negociar su vínculo con Shema mientras intenta abrirse paso como compositora independiente

job: Director

job: Sound Designer

job: Production Design

job: Line Producer

job: Gaffer

job: Sound

job: Songs

job: Writer

original_title: Minimals in a Titanic World

production_countries: RW DE CM


title: Lyiza

overview: The past is always present in the life of Lyiza who has to live with the traumatic memory of her parents' murder, during the genocide in Rwanda. When she recognizes in the father of her classmate, the person responsible for their murder, a great tension started. The harmony returns through the intervention of a teacher who takes the youngsters to the museum of the genocide, the place of memory, and guides Lyiza towards forgiveness.

title: Lyiza

job: Editor

job: Music

original_title: Lyiza


title: i

status: Canceled

title: i

title: i

original_title: i

title: 纵情女孩

country: CN


title: Not a Choice

overview: A tender portrait of two transgender souls, navigating the harsh tides of family violence and societal rejection. Through the language of music and dance, they discover the rhythm of the struggle and the grace in freedom. And in so doing, seize the chance to be seen and heard.

title: Not a Choice

original_title: Not a Choice


title: Phiona, a girl from Madrid

overview: It's been few days since Phiona came back from Madrid, a metaphorical city where she was alienated from the outside world for three years. After a day-long friendly conversation with her snobbish cousin Yves takes a turn for the judgmental regarding the decisions that made Phiona go to Madrid in the first place, their friendship is put at odds.

title: Phiona, la fille de Madrid

overview: Kigali, Juin 2020. Cela fait quelques jours que Phiona est revenue de Madrid, une ville métaphorique où elle était coupée du monde extérieur pendant trois ans. Après une journée remplie de conversations amicales avec son cousin Yves, la discussion prend une tournure critique concernant les décisions qui ont conduit Phiona à se rendre à Madrid. Leur amitié se trouve alors mise à l’épreuve.

title: Phiona, a girl from Madrid

character: Phiona

character: Yves

job: Production Director

job: Director of Photography

job: Art Direction

job: Executive Producer

job: Producer

original_title: Phiona, Umukobwa Uvuye I Madrid

production_countries: RW BJ FR


title: Ako Kantu

overview: In this satirical short film, a failed journalist’s Valentine’s Day interview with a local thief escalates from a cynical bid for clicks into a profound discovery.

title: Ako Kantu

original_title: Ako Kantu


title: Imihigo

overview: In a Rwanda in full revival, three people with very different realities are involved in the same programme called Imihigo, a sort of “national development competition”. Richard the mayor of the district, Innocent the villager and Sandrine, a civil servant from the diaspora.

title: Imihigo

job: Sound Editor

job: Sound Re-Recording Mixer

original_title: Imihigo

title: Imihigo, le sérment rwandais

country: CH


title: Echoes Beneath The Hill

overview: Set in 1994 Rwanda, on the verge of the genocide against the minority Tutsi. Jeanne, 10, a daredevil girl, is searching for her pet goat. During this final quest of childhood amid the warmth of family, days full of play, and calming mountain winds, she is exposed to new realities about her ethnicity.

title: Echoes Beneath The Hill

character: Jeanne

character: Ngano

character: Rulisa (Jeanne's' Father)

character: Yvette (Jeanne's Mother)

character: Mugabo (The Storyteller)

job: Director

job: Screenplay

job: Associate Producer

job: First Assistant Director

job: Production Assistant

job: Child Wrangler

job: First Assistant Camera

job: Color Grading

job: Sound Recordist

job: Mixing Engineer

job: Visual Effects Coordinator

department: Visual Effects

job: VFX Supervisor

job: Compositor

job: 3D Artist

job: Additional Visual Effects

job: Location Scout

job: Transportation Captain


title: Murmurs from the Wind

overview: Approaching 35, a filmmaker journeys to Luxor, where his haunting past collides with present realities. Amidst the city's timeless beauty, he confronts his demons, seeking hope in the echoes of history and his own soul.

title: Murmurs from the Wind

job: Director

job: Producer

job: Cinematography

job: Editor

job: Assistant Director

original_title: Murmurs from the Wind