So far, “100Days”, has been screened all over the world and received great reviews.
Among the top Film Festivals where it was screened:
*Toronto Film Festival, Toronto,CANADA ***PREMIER***
*Raindance,London,UK
*FIPA, Biarritz,FRANCE**Gold FIPA for Original Score**
*Sithengi,Cape Town,SOUTH AFRICA
*GöteborgFilm Festival,SWEDEN
*Palm Springs Film Festival, California,USA
*Pan-African Film Festival,California,USA
*Milan African Film Festival:Milan,ITALY
*Natfest,DENMARK
*New York,USA:New York African Film Festival
*Philadelphia,USA : Philadelphia Film Festival
*Montreal,CANADA,Vue D’Afrique Film Festival
*Florida,USA,Florida International Film Festival
*Calgary,CANADA,Calgary Film Festival
*Karlovy Vary,CZECH REPUBLIC
*Morocco,Morocco Film Festival
*Zanzibar International Film Festival,Zanzibar:TANZANIA
*Salt Lake City Film Festival,USA **3 Gloria Awards Nominations**
*Durban,International Film Festiva,SOUTH AFRICAl
*Black-filmakers Int’l Film Festival London, ENGLAND
*Vancouver,CANADA,International Film Festival
*Tokyo African Film Festival(TAFF),Japan
*Cherbourg-Octeville Film Festival,France
*Oslo,Films from the South Festival,Norway
*Mexico,Ajijic Festival Internacional de Cine**Jury Award**
*New York Africa Diaspora Film Festiva,USA
R E V I E W S:
***VARIETY: posted: Fri., Oct. 12, 2001, 5:48pm PT
100Days (Rwanda-U.K.)
A Broadcast Feature Facilities production in association with VividPictures.
Produced by Eric Kabera, Nick Hughes. Executive producer, Hughes.
Directed,written by Nick Hughes.
With: Cleophas Kabasita, Mazimpaka Kennedy, Davis Kagenza,
DavisKwizera, David Mulwa, Denis Nsanzamahoro, Justin Rusandazangabo,
Eric Bridges Twahirwa, Didier Ndengeyintwali.
By DENNIS HARVEY
Nearly 10 years after the onset of Rwanda’s genocidal “ethnic cleansing” wars,
“100 Days” re-creates one early slaughter at its original site.
First feature for writer-helmer Nick Hughes draws on his nonfiction expertise
as a vet BBC cameraman to dramatize real-life atrocities with harrowing matter-of-factness. Unpleasant subject won’t be an easy sell, but this accomplished, accessible English-language effort deserves limited theatrical and broadcast exposure in territories worldwide.
Narrative nominally focuses on handsome young lovers,Josette(CleophasKabasita) and Baptiste (Davis Kagenza) whose innocent courtship in Kibuye is interrupted by Hutu violence against their Tutsi neighbors. Petty harassment soon explodes into
vigilante attacks. His whole family murdered, Baptiste flees into the jungle
(disappearing from pic’s midsection), while Josette and kin are herded along with other Tutsi townsfolk into a Catholic church where she’s forced to become the local priest’s concubine. When U.N. peacekeepers reluctantly leave, there’s no one left to stop the inevitable massacre — or Tutsi rebel army revenge. Beauteous countryside provides chilling contrast to the official hypocrisy and bloodlust. Occasional stiff perfs aside, pic reps docudrama filmmaking at its finest; tech package is first-rate.
Camera (color), Hughes; editor, Kavila Matu; music, Steve Parr,SharonRose,
Cecile Kayiregawa; production designer, Hughes. Reviewed at Toront Film Festival(Planet Africa), Sept. 13, 2001. Running time: 100 MIN.
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— Alex Shoumatoff, former staff writer for the New Yorker and contributing
editor at Vanity Fair, and author of a forthcoming historical saga about
Rwanda to be published by Harper Collins.
“100 days is a powerfully and chillingly authentic portrayal about the
genocide of l994 overtaking Kibuye, a beautiful, up till then bucolically
peaceful town on Lake Kivu in Rwanda. It is a film not to be missed by
anyone disturbed by the darkness and collective madness increasingly abroad in the world.”