Rwandan Genocide
Movies about this genocide that took place in 1994.
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- DirectorRaoul PeckStarsIdris ElbaCarole KaremeraPamela NomveteWhen the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000 people.9/10
- DirectorJennifer CapraruRoger SpottiswoodeStarsRoy DupuisOwen SejakeJames GallandersThe story of General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.8/10
- DirectorRobert FavreauStarsLuc PicardFatou N'DiayeCéline BonnierIn April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who is younger than him, in a period of violent racial conflicts. When the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda begins, Bernard does not succeed in escaping with Gentille to Canada. When the genocide finishes in July 1994, Bernard returns to the chaotic Kigali seeking out Gentille in the middle of destruction and dead bodies.8/10
- DirectorMichael Caton-JonesStarsJohn HurtHugh DancyDominique HorwitzA Catholic Priest and an English teacher get stranded in a school in Kigali during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.8/10
- DirectorTerry GeorgeStarsDon CheadleSophie OkonedoJoaquin PhoenixPaul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.7/10
- DirectorJean-Stéphane SauvaireStarsChristophe MinieDaisy Victoria VandyJoseph DuoA cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in the West African Country Liberia.7/10 - Not explicitely saying the country but belongs in this list.
- DirectorNick HughesStarsEric Bridges TwahirwaCleophas KabasitaDavis KagenzaA local Hutu official is persuaded to implement the government's policy against the Tutsi: To completely wipe them out. Josette, a beautiful young Tutsi girl struggles to survive the killing by taking refuge in a church, supposedly protected by the UNO forces. Meanwhile, Josette's brother is hunted down and murdered and her boyfriend rescued by the rebels. But the Hutu Catholic priest betrays Josette's family and only agrees to spare her life is to submit to the nightly violations. By the time she is reunited with her boyfriend, neither of them can face the brutal reality of their situation: she is pregnant and bears the priest's child, which she immediately abandons. 100 Days was shot in Kibuye, the beautiful landscape had been the back drop to some of the worst atrocities in 1994. In Kibuye Church, the site of an actual massacre, Rwanda actors played killers and victims that were only too familiar to them.not seen yet
- DirectorGreg BarkerStarsMadeleine AlbrightGromo AlexKofi AnnanStory of Rwandian genocide in 1994, 800.000 people were slaughtered by their own goverment.not seen yet
- DirectorAlrick BrownStarsCleophas KabasitaHadidja ZaninkaMarc GwamakaA young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man fall in love amidst chaos; a soldier struggles to foster a greater good while absent from her family; and a priest grapples with his faith in the face of unspeakable horror.
- DirectorLee Isaac ChungStarsJeff RutagengwaEric NdorunkundiyeJean Marie Vianney NkurikiyinkaFrom opposing ethnicities, Ngabo and Sangwa are tested when old-timers warn, "Hutus and Tutsis should not be friends." An intense and inspiring portrait of youth in Rwanda, 'Munyurangabo' features Poet Laureate Edouard Uwayo delivering a moving poem about his healing country. Rwanda. Kinyarwanda with English subtitles.
- DirectorDavid MuñozBetween April and July 1994, over 800,000 people were killed in the Rwanda genocide. What's the current situation of the country? And what about the victims? That's the subject of this multi-award-winning documentary, which also debates about the importance of education in a society that has lived through a genocide.
- DirectorKimberlee AcquaroStacy ShermanStarsRosario DawsonA powerful documentary about five women whose lives have been irrevocably altered by the Rwandan genocide. With the country left nearly 70% female in the wake of the massacres, "God Sleeps In Rwanda" is a lucid portrait of the much larger change affected by women in the East African country.
- DirectorJuan ReinaApril 1994, on a quiet road in Kigali a group of neighbors was filmed. But this was the opening days of the Rwandan Genocide. This documentary re-visits the scene following the cameraman, victims, survivors, killers and witnesses. But all they were unaware that they were filmed, that this moment unlike a dream can be replayed, each character watches the footage, each has a very different interest and emotion. From the original footage the story follows a thread of revelation, so many souls lost in the mist of ethnic hatred, they came together for one terrible hour on a quiet road.
- DirectorAnne AghionThe people of Rwanda attempt to reconcile after the genocide through an open process of admission and forgiveness.
- DirectorPeter LeDonneStarsImmaculee LlibagizaImmaculee Llibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994, her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide.
- DirectorJay KnoxRay TostevinLesley Bilinda, is determined to track down the people that killed her Rwandan husband, Charles, who disappeared during the 1994 genocide in which up to a million people died. When she returns to Rwanda, where she worked with the relief and development agency, Tearfund, Lesley faces a web of deception and fear and uncovers unexpected and unpalatable truths about her pastor husband. Like thousands of other genocide widows, she grapples with the inner turmoil of loss and betrayal, set against the challenge of her faith to forgive.
- DirectorGilbert NdahayoApril 10th, 1994. Killers stormed a convent in of the small hill towns of Rwanda. They selected two hundred Tutsis from the group and executed them behind this convent. Behind This Convent is the story of from the point of view of survivors who have witnessed the darkest hour of the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
- DirectorPatricia BoikoIn 'Reconciling Rwanda' an American College student tells us what most Americans don't know. We meet her fellow Rwandan students who were on opposite sides of the genocide. We journey with them through the picturesque hills, chimpanzee forest and vast lake Kivu. We hear the Rwandan president speak about genocide and reconciliation. Filmed entirely in Rwanda
- DirectorKatharina von SchroederTells the story of four young Rwandans whose lives were crushed by war and genocide.