2024 | France | Documentary

A L'ombre Des Collines (In the Shade of the Hills)

  • Kinyarwanda 83 mins
  • Director | Anne Jochum, LaĆ«titia Gaudin Le Puil
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | Catherine Simeon, Anna Lincoln

STATUS: Released

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Amani is 31. When he was an infant, he survived the genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsi population. Three decades later, Amani has set up an organisation in Nyamirambo, one of the more economically impoverished districts of the country’s capital, Kigali. It employs creativity, artistic practice and performance to grapple with poverty and generational trauma – acknowledging that deep-seated ideologies can easily foment prejudice and create an environment that proved so catastrophic in the past. While acknowledging the historical context, Anne Jochum and Laetitia Gaudin Le Puil’s film is mainly focused on Amani’s work, the lives and experiences of the people he offers help to, and how his worldview aims at ensuring the history he lived through is never repeated.

Genocide Rwanda Tutsi Creativity Artists Poverty Trauma Work Help
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