A film by Lee Isaac Chung
Rwanda, 2007 (97 minutes)
Two youngs boys, in brutal Rwandan genocide, test their freindship...
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Arkansas native Lee Isaac Chung’s Independent Spirit Award-nominated feature debut takes a closer look at the ongoing fallout from last decade’s brutal Rwandan genocide. The story follows Munyurangabo (Jeff Rutagengwa) and Sangwa (Eric Ndorunkundiye), two young boys from opposing tribes who test their friendship on a quest for some measure of justice. Munyurangabo, in search of the people who killed his father, a Tutsi, in the wave of genocide that swept the nation in 1994, steals a machete from a Kilgali market. Hutu-born Sangwa agrees to take his friend from their refugee camp to his family’s native village. When the boys arrive in the seemingly peaceful Hutu town, they learn that old hatreds run deep, and that the ethnic lines they are so ready to overlook still carry a lot of weight for others.
Korean-American director Chung studied medicine at Yale before launching his filmmaking career. While teaching film at a Christian youth outreach in Rwanda, he recruited a local cast of non-professional actors and filmed Munyurangabo over the course of 11 days. The first film ever made in the Kinyarwandan language, Chung’s multiple award-winner has been called “one of the decade’s most moving feature debuts” (Eye Weekly Toronto) and “a voyage to the heart of African history, memory and identity.” (International Herald Tribune)
(In Kinyarwanda; English subtitles)