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- An intersex African hacker, a coltan miner and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.
- From 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.
- Dan is a family man and a successful yet humble bishop whose marriage with the controversial Jane is constantly under scrutiny. When unsuspected foes threaten their family and their life accomplishments, Dan and Jane must fight to prevent them from destroying everything they worked so hard for.
- 'I Have Seen My Last Born' is about Rwanda in transition from its difficult and violent past towards development, seen through the life of a man who juggles the roles of father and a son, between the city and the village.
- It follows Eva, who is kidnapped by a stranger and raped. Her aunts agree to a forced marriage, and when she finds a confidant in the man's cousin, she discovers the family's traumatic past.
- Dee, former janitor, who found solace in his job at a hospital until he meets Eveline, a woman trying to gain sight. Their bond transcends physical vision as they steer personal struggles, love, and sacrifice in a challenging world.
- Jean Luc, a 30-year-old man from Belgium, has never met his Rwandan father. When his mother falls ill, he travels to Rwanda to find him, armed with only a portrait and the name of the place where his parents met. Surprisingly, Bonheur speaks Kinyarwanda, making communication easy. However, things get complicated when he meets Olive, a beautiful fisherwoman, and develops romantic feelings for her.
- After being imprisoned for the killing of ethnic Tutsis during the Rwandan genocide, Manzi must face the emotional and psychological consequences of his most personal crime: the murder of his best friend's family.
- In this compelling drama series, we follow Nikuze, a reserved young woman from a rural village, as she ventures into the bustling city in search of a fresh start. Taking up a position as a maid in a prominent city household, she embraces the opportunity to immerse herself in a world teeming with unfamiliar faces and experiences. However, as Nikuze navigates this new urban landscape, she soon discovers that the city's allure comes hand in hand with unexpected challenges and complexities she had never anticipated.
- A story of triumph, survival,hope, and a lesson in how to forgive and live, through the eyes of a mother whose grief gives hope and a lesson in how to forgive and live; an artist who chose to forgive rather than seek revenge. A group of young mean and women whose determination and hard work has given the Rwandan culture a new dimension of Identity and celebration. Through these characters and others, we bear witness to how the nation rose above the ashes of a horrific 1994, to become a world model of post-conflict peace and unity.
- A survivor of the Rwandan genocide resurfaces to confront his parents' murderers, and provides himself and his beloved ones peace.
- In the near future, time travel tourism allows vacationers to travel back in time to experience moments of historical significance. When mild-mannered Frank visits a time travel agency to inquire about a trip, he is offered the "ultimate" thrill - an opportunity to go back in time to participate in a murder. But what was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime turns into an unimaginable nightmare, with only one way out.
- Balthazar is a young African filmmaker on the brink of directing his first project, The Cycle of the Cockroach, a fictional story about a young woman who survived unspeakable atrocities only to find herself committed to the same mental institution as a man driven insane by the crimes he perpetrated during the war. Potential funders for the film insist the themes are too bleak and pessimistic-they encourage Balthazar to make a "message" film that raises awareness about gender-based violence or HIV/AIDS instead. But he refuses to give up. Instead of telling his production team the news, Balthazar continues preparations for the film without financing or equipment. After rehearsing a scene with each of the characters, reality blurs and scenes from the script materialize, provoking the question: Can a film like this exist only in the director's dreams? Armed with a daring and creative visual language, writer/director Kivu Ruhorahoza boldly grasps at the illusory trick of representation in the wake of trauma and its ensuing madness. Paralleling the protagonist in his film, Ruhorahoza's debut marks the very first feature-length narrative film directed by a Rwandan filmmaker living in his homeland.
- This feature length documentary, Mzungu, is our story about personal change, sacrifice, adventure, and ultimately the power of love and community. You will embark on a journey into the great joys and perils of Africa through the eyes of four-young-naive and unassuming Americans. As we join Scott, Eric, Dan, and Adam on their crusade to 'save the world', you too may just fall in-love with Uganda and Rwanda, meet some new friends, and change your life for the better. These young men aren't on a vacation, they have gone to work hard, to 'help', doing what they know best. They will visit Internally Displaced People camps and witness the short and long term effects of genocide and tribal wars. They gain a new understanding of the immense devastation HIV/AIDS is creating across the continent of Africa.. But in the course of making life- long friends, as well as, facing the loss of life, the viewer is on this journey as well. We hope you will also laugh, cry, sing, dance, and in the end leave Africa completely different people. In a time when social entrepreneurs and global issues rule the media, this documentary is a truly raw and real look into a once-in-a-lifetime journey that turns into an entire world of friends working together. The power of this film lies in the questions it forces us to ask ourselves. Are we doing enough, what if it's too hard to help people, what does it mean to love people we've never met? Yet, in the end, you too will may start to believe the world can be a better place and that it is up to you to change it!
- In a desolate world void of love and honesty, where betrayal and obstacles dominate, articulating her life becomes an arduous task. Yet, amidst the haze, she tenaciously clings to hope, yearning for the promise of a clearer and brighter tomorrow, braving the storm of foggy days. Each step is a testament to her resilience, each day a battle against the shadows of her past, she perseveres with unwavering strength, an enduring beacon in the quest for a genuine connection and a life defined by sincerity.
- A mother trying to cope the loss of her son gradually distances herself from her husband; a criminal introduces his son to a life of living by his wits; and a young woman is taking care of the ailing father she never truly loved.
- A modern Rwandan nurse rediscovers her rural heritage while helping community health workers educate the disadvantaged.
- Claire is a young lady with an innocent face and timid in a bar in Kigali. She looks desperate and lost; she has invited herself into this bar to drink a big glass of high-volt whisky to "numb" her feelings and thoughts. Claire has left her village to become a pop star in beautiful Kigali. Claire envisions herself becoming a Beyonce of all singers, a talent she holds above anything else, but Kigali proposes roadblocks she must destroy to reach her destiny. Will Claire conquer?
- Rwanda, the "Land of Thousand Hills," is a vital coffee hub dating back to colonial times. The sector shapes Rwanda's economy and aids post-genocide healing. This film unveils specialty coffee, spotlighting farmers, exporters and roasters.
- Kwame, an African man, wants to travel outside of his compound, but he must first get a visa from a Caucasian gatekeeper who controls movements in-and-out of the house. It is only with the help of a Caucasian girlfriend that he succeeds.
- A comedy pilot created by Matthew Leutwyler, Erik Palladino (ER, SUITS), and Vincent Ventresca (THE INVISIBLE MAN, "Fun Bobby" on FRIENDS), loosely based on their own lives - If they took their lives to Rwanda to become "Volunteers." We will be the first "Hollywood" comedy series to be shot in Africa.
- Gatera Rudasingwa was born into a hardscrabble life deep in Rwanda's lush-green countryside. His family's home had no electricity, not even a proper bathroom. He attended no schools because there were no schools to attend. Gatera could only hope to imagine of one day having a real bed from which to sleep in and cast his dreams. Infected with deadly malaria at 6-months-old, a nurse's misguided syringe injected him with a single dose of a simple quinine curative. She accidentally pierced his sciatic nerve. His right leg began weakening, his muscles withering and wasting away. Within days he couldn't stand. He could only crawl, dragging his right leg behind him. Everyone knew that Gatera would never walk. But Gatera wasn't everyone. And Gatera could still dream. Torn from his parents during the Rwandan civil war, he was forced to live under the guardianship of his grandfather, who put his disabled 4-year-old grandson to work shepherding his cows. With only a makeshift wooden stick as his crutch, Gatera labored for ten years, all the while questioning why other children, both able-bodied and disabled, were allowed to go to school and better their lives but he was not. And so Gatera escaped to Gatagara, Father Fraipont's school for disabled children. There, with the horrors of the Tutsi genocide ravaging his country, and the deaths of his family among the thousands of atrocities, he felt embraced in love, wisdom, faith and inspiration for the very first time in his life. The discarded boy who so many believed was fated to only being able to crawl soon discovered his life's calling ignited: Gatera would dedicate himself to learning all there was to know about creating artificial limbs. He'd help others like himself, and the survivors of the Tutsi genocide so much less fortunate, to walk surefooted, stand strong and tall, and even dance. This is the inspiring true story of the man part visionary, part philanthropist, part entrepreneur, and part philosopher. Joining hands in marriage with his beloved Mami, his kindred spirit and soulmate from Japan, they dedicate the next 23-years of their lives creating Project: ONE LOVE, an artificial limb factory and non-profit charity built brick-by-brick by hand atop a plot of government-donated swampland. Together, their sheer strengths of character, their unwavering belief in their mission, and their ever enduring faith that the sun also rises are put through an ultimate test when on Christmas eve a thundering, unrelenting six-hour torrential downpour floods, consumes and completely destroys their entire life's work.
- The past is always present in the life of Lyiza who has to live with the traumatic memory of her parents' murder, during the genocide in Rwanda. When she recognizes in the father of her classmate, the person responsible for their murder, a great tension started. The harmony returns through the intervention of a teacher who takes the youngsters to the museum of the genocide, the place of memory, and guides Lyiza towards forgiveness.
- With great sensitivity, director Eric Kabera immortalises the accounts of survivors, victims and perpetrators of the genocide in Rwanda, ten years after the devastating events of 1994.
- A young woman goes back to her native village fleeing from an abusive marriage and looking for emotional support. However, she will find herself facing the hostile attitude of her family and social norms ruling what a real woman should be.
- WERA is a family drama about Mbanzamihigo, a village chief, who learns that his daughter, Uwera, has brought a curse upon his village. He must confront his wife Nyirantaho and his adviser Nkundabagabo in hopes of making a decision that saves both the village from an imminent draught and her daughter from execution by drowning.
- In a time of fleeting innocence, Jeannette finds herself on the precipice of womanhood. At the tender age of 16, the weight of unexpected motherhood awaits her. She takes us on a journey through her past.
- Mariam's marriage turns upside down after a strange boy secretly follows her home and refuses to leave.
- Rwanda Gambit is a groundbreaking 134-minute high-definition feature-length documentary film written and directed by Andre Vltchek, one of the world's most prolific documentary filmmakers and authors. Drawing on what the filmmaker says is his "duty to bring philosophy, history and facts together," this important film challenges the official Western narrative on Rwanda and the genocide that occurred there.
- In the recent years, a lot have changed in the renewable energy sector in East Africa. But questions remain: Are we missing out of the renewable energy revolution? Is the current model sustainable? Do we need to change government policies?
- An arrogant, young DJ who finds out he is HIV positive.
- Gatoni Maya, a 23-year-old brave girl, is resolved to fulfill her deceased father's dream of making a living through arts.
- Mnemosyne is a eulogy by a grieving and nostalgic man for a mysterious girl he met when he was desperate and anxious about life. The meeting brought hope and since then, they briefly enjoyed each other's company till the girl's complicated past and the unfairness of life took over and grabbed her away.
- ICYASHA follows a twelve years old boy and football lover tries desperately to join a neighborhood boys' team. His effeminate character disqualifies him. He gets denigrated and bullied several times. He finds himself confronted to a world where he has to prove and claim his masculinity. It is a story that simultaneously discusses the pain and beauty of childhood.
- Bwiza is young woman who has to choose between two men, a successful businessman from the city, who has bright future, or her childhoods friend who has nothing to offer but sweet nothings.
- In a house by the twin lakes in northern Rwanda, a mysterious young woman spends a few days with a couple. As her short stay progresses, her growing ties with one of them slowly pull them together.
- Mugwaneza Alice was born, she was diagnosed with a serious mental disability but her family was poor and could not afford the treatment that was required. Alice continue to grow with disability and when she was 17 she was raped, impregnated, and gave birth to a boy. Her mother struggled a lot to take care of both the daughter and her son while trying hard to teach her about reproductive health. Now that the boy has grown. Alice is able to attend a nun's training class where they teach the youth who were born with disability different basic lessons to help them adapt to society.
- 'Lake Women' is about a strong, determined woman who finds treasure on Lake Kivu, and begins a quest to form the first Rwandan fisherwomen's group ever.
- A few weeks after going through health complications that led to a miscarriage, a 32 years old mother of two intimately revisits her complicated past.
- Five of the first architecture students in Rwanda use poems to suggest the nuance and culture of the place where they grew up.