Gacaca, Living Together Again In Rwanda?
- Gacaca, Living Together Again In Rwanda?
Infobox Film
name = Gacaca, Living Together Again In Rwanda?
caption = Screenshot depicting a Rwandan man testifying before a Gacaca court.
director = Anne Aghion
producer = Philip Brooks
Laurent Bocahut
Anne Aghion
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starring =
music =
cinematography =
editing = Nadia Ben Rachid
distributor = Dominant 7, Gacaca Productions, and Planète
released = 2002
runtime = 55 min.
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country = Rwanda
language = Kinyarwanda with English subtitles
budget =
gross =
website = http://www.anneaghionfilms.com/2002/index.html
amg_id = 1:272072
imdb_id =0331497
"Gacaca, Living Together Again In Rwanda?" is the first documentary film in a trilogy by Anne Aghion examining the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide. Directed by Anne Aghion and produced by Dominant 7, Gacaca Productions, and Planète, this 2002 film won UNESCO's Fellini Prize. [cite web |url=http://www.unaff.org/2004/f_inrwanda.html |title=In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies |accessdate=2008-07-30 |work=UNAFF |date=2004 ] [cite web |url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/edu/pastgenocides/rwanda/resources/ |title=Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda? |accessdate=2008-07-30 |work=Prevent Genocide International |date=2005-09-21 ] Filmed in Rwanda, the language of "Gacaca" is Kinyarwanda with English subtitles. [cite web |url=http://www.filmlinc.com/archive/wrt/programs/6-2003/hrw.htm |title=The 2003 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival |accessdate=2008-07-30 |work=Human Rights Watch |date=2003 ] In Kinyarwanda, gacaca means "grass", which was the location of the reparation trials in Rwanda. [cite news |first=Nancy |last=Ramsey |title=Filming Rwandans' Efforts To Heal |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E6DF1F3AF937A15757C0A9659C8B63 |work=The New York Times |date=2003-04-24 |accessdate=2008-07-30 ]
Plot
Set in Rwanda, "Gacaca, Living Together Again In Rwanda?" follows the proceedings of the Gacaca court, an experimental form of community justice to prosecute prisoners accused of genocide and war crimes. Anne Aghion, the director, is filmed as a prosecutor who runs the tribunal. The proceedings would occur on grass where anyone who had a denouncement against the accused would be free to speak. If no one accused the prisoner, then that prisoner would be freed. If the prisoner was accused, then village elders called "Inyangamugayo" (Kinyarwanda for "uncorrupted") would mediate a solution involving reparations or some act of contrition. Convicted prisoners would serve a jail sentence ranging from several weeks to two years and then the rest of their sentence doing community service outside of jail. Anne Aghion interviews victims who live next to people who have d their brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, their family.
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External links
* [http://www.anneaghionfilms.com/2002/index.html Official website]
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