In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies

In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies is a documentary film examining the Gacaca justice process in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Directed by Anne Aghion and produced by Gacaca Productions, this 2004 film won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Informational Programming."[1] Filmed in Rwanda, the language of In Rwanda is Kinyarwanda with English subtitles.[2]

In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies
Screenshot depicting two Rwandans
Directed byAnne Aghion
Produced byLaurent Bocahut
Anne Aghion
Edited byNadia Ben Rachid
Distributed byGacaca Productions and Incarus Films
Release date
  • 2004 (2004)
Running time
54 minutes
CountryRwanda
LanguageKinyarwanda with English subtitles

Plot

Set in Rwanda, Anne Aghion, the director, interviews a genocide offender who has been released back into his community, and the victims of the genocide. The film follows how at first, the coexistence between the people who instigated the genocide and the victimized people is unbearable. Many of the victims feel rage toward their former oppressors. But gradually, the victims and oppressors start talking to the camera, and then to each other as they start the difficult task of living with each other. The documentary portrays how the people's spirits cannot be crushed by the Rwandan genocide, the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's minority Tutsis and the moderates of its Hutu majority by the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi.

References
  1. "PBS wins six news and doc Emmys". Associated Press. 2005-09-20. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
  2. "International Film Festival" (PDF). Human Rights Watch. 2004. p. 4. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
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