My Neighbor, My Killer ( Mon voisin, mon tueur )

My Neighbor, My Killer (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Mon voisin, mon tueur
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Bengali ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
80 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Anne Aghion

Written By:
Anne Aghion

Actors:
Anne Aghion

Synopsis:

When peace comes, how do you make it right again? An epic emotional journey in search of co-existence in Rwanda. Could you ever forgive the people who slaughtered your family? In 1994, hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus were incited to wipe out the countrys Tutsi minority. From the crowded capital to the smallest village, local patrols massacred lifelong friends and family members, most often with machetes and improvised weapons. Announced in 2001, and ending this year, the government put in place the Gacaca Tribunalsopen-air hearings with citizen-judges meant to try their neighbors and rebuild the nation. As part of this experiment in reconciliation, confessed genocide killers are sent home from prison, while traumatized survivors are asked to forgive them and resume living side-by-side. Filming for close to a decade in a tiny hamlet, award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion has charted the impact of Gacaca on survivors and perpetrators alike. Through their fear and anger, accusations and defenses, blurry truths, inconsolable sadness, and hope for life renewed, she captures the emotional journey to coexistence.

Almost 10 years in the making, "My Neighbor My Killer" examines the emotional and judicial convulsions of post-genocide Rwanda through the oral testimonies of a handful of traumatized survivors. Directed by Anne Aghion (and a feature-length companion to her three short films on the subject), this restrained and ethically nuanced documentary investigates the effectiveness of the open-air tribunals known as gacacas. Instituted nationally in 2005 by the Rwandan government, these citizen courts try Hutu accused of the 1994 slaughter of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu. In most cases the guilty are returned to the communities they helped decimate.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 19 July, 2011.

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