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Streaming video

Title My neighbor my killer
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018
Anne Aghion Films, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (137 min.) : flv file, sound
Summary Ould you ever forgive the people who slaughtered your family? In 1994, hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus were incited to wipe out the country's 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 in 2012, the government put in place the Gacaca Tribunals -- open-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
Notes Title from title frames
Event Originally produced by Anne Aghion Films in 2009
Notes Closed-captioned
Subject Documentary films.
Genocide -- Rwanda
Documentary films.
Genocide.
Rwanda.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Form Streaming video
Author Aghion, Anne, film director.
Anne Aghion Films (Firm), distributor.
Kanopy (Firm), distributor.