Category: Films

At the epicenter of the long-running civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lies Virunga National Park, Africa’s oldest national park in the border triangle of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is home to more than 200 of the only 720 Mountain Gorillas remaining in the world. Here, a …

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Intore, a Rwandan documentary film was among hundreds of films screened at this year’s edition of the Yagamata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan. The weeklong festival opened on October 5 in the Japanese city of Yagamata. It closes on Wednesday October 12. Hundreds of films from across the globe were screened at the biennial …

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The Goethe-Institut Kigali Liaison Office is hosting this evening the premiere of two short-films by young Rwandan filmmakers Aimé-Philbert Mbabazi and Samuel Karemangingo Ishimwe. The screening is taking place at the Goethe-Institut’s office in Kiyovu from 6:30PM. Read each film’s synopsis below: Crossing Lines Directed by Karemangingo Ishimwe Samuel and Mbabazi Philbert (2009) | Original English …

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During the genocide of 1994, more than two thousand people were killed at a technical school in Kigali , the Ecole Technique Officiel or ETO. Now, ten years on, the same school has provided the location for a BBC film Shooting Dogs. Shooting Dogs producer is David Belton, who worked in Rwanda as a BBC …

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