Events

June 24, 2009

New York Premiere:
My Neighbor, My Killer

ICTJ, Facing History and Ourselves and Witness present the New York premiere of My Neighbor, My Killer at the 2009 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

Saturday June 20, 6:30pm filmmaker and special guest present, reception to follow

Monday June 22, 8:45pm filmmaker presents

Wednesday June 24, 4:00pm filmmaker presents

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In 1994, hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus were incited to wipe out the country's Tutsi minority. In 1999 the government began Gacaca-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.

A film by Anne Aghion

In French and Kinyarwanda with English subtitles.