The Gacaca Trilogy - 3-DVD Set ( Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda? / In Rwanda We Say... The Family That Does Not Speak Dies / The Notebooks of Memory )

The Gacaca Trilogy - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda? / In Rwanda We Say... The Family That Does Not Speak Dies / The Notebooks of Memory
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
162 min + 105 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2003 - 2009 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Anne Aghion

Written By:
Anne Aghion

Actors:
Anne Aghion

Synopsis:

Gacaca: Living Together Again In Rwanda? (2003)
Follow the first steps in one of the world's boldest experiments in reconciliation: the Gacaca (Ga-CHA-cha) Tribunals. These are a new form of citizen-based justice aimed at unifying this country of 8 million people after the 1994 genocide which claimed over 800,000 lives in 100 days.
In Rwanda we say... The family that does not speak dies (2005)
In Rwanda we say... focuses on the release of one suspect, and the effect of his return on this tiny hillside hamlet.
The Notebooks of Memory (2009)
This third film in the series focuses on tribunals of local citizen-judges weighing survivor accounts of the massacres against the testimony of perpetrators.

Gacaca: Living Together Again In Rwanda? (2003)
The first film in this award-winning trilogy ventures into the rural heart of the African nation of Rwanda. Follow the first steps in one of the world's boldest experiments in reconciliation: the Gacaca (Ga-CHA-cha) Tribunals. These are a new form of citizen-based justice aimed at unifying this country of 8 million people after the 1994 genocide which claimed over 800,000 lives in 100 days. While world attention is focused on the unfolding procedures, award-winning documentarian Anne Aghion bypasses the usual interviews with politicians and international aid workers, skips the statistics, and goes directly to the emotional core of the story, talking one-on-one with survivors and accused killers alike. In this powerful, compassionate and insightful film, with almost no narration, and using only original footage, she captures first-hand how ordinary people struggle to find a future after cataclysm.
In Rwanda we say... The family that does not speak dies (2005)
In Rwanda we say... focuses on the release of one suspect, and the effect of his return on this tiny hillside hamlet. While the government's message of a 'united Rwandan family' infiltrates the language of the community, reactions to this imposed co-existence reel from numb acceptance to repressed rage. Violence seems to lurk just below the surface. What unfolds, however, is an astonishing testament to the liberating power of speech: little by little, people begin to talk in a profound and articulate way - first to the camera, and then to each other - as these neighbors negotiate the emotional task of accepting life side by side.
The Notebooks of Memory (2009)
This third film in the series focuses on tribunals of local citizen-judges weighing survivor accounts of the massacres against the testimony of perpetrators. On a lush green Rwandan hillside, more than a decade after the 1994 genocide to wipe out the Tutsi population, a small rural community gathers on the grass over and over again for the Gacaca (ga-CHA-cha) trials, a unique experiment in justice meant to bring unity back to this nation. In The Notebooks of Memory award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion spends four years following the process, as a tribunal of local citizen-judges weighs survivor accounts of the massacres against the testimony of perpretrators who barter confessions for reduced prison sentences.

Gacaca (Ga-CHA-cha), which literally means 'justice on the grass,' is a form of citizen-based justice which Rwandans decided to put into place in an attempt to deal with the crimes of the 1994 genocide.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 09 June, 2014.

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