Description |
1 online resource (54 minutes) |
Summary |
Could you forgive a person who murdered your family? This is the question faced by the subjects of As We Forgive, a documentary about Rosaria and Chantal-two Rwandan women coming face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. The subjects of As We Forgive speak for a nation still wracked by the grief of a genocide that killed one in eight Rwandans in 1994. Overwhelmed by an enormous backlog of court cases, the government has returned over 50,000 thousand genocide perpetrators back to the very communities they helped to destroy. Without the hope of full justice, Rwanda has turned to a new solution: Reconciliation. But can it be done? Can survivors truly forgive the killers who destroyed their families? Can the government expect this from its people? And can the church, which failed at moral leadership during the genocide, fit into the process of reconciliation today? |
Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed June 08, 2020) |
Credits |
Cinematography, Kasey Kirby, Laura Waters Hinson ; musical score, Lenny Williams, Chris Biondo ; translators, Emmanuel Kwizera, Emmanuel Mutangana |
Performer |
Narrated by Mia Farrow; commentators, Fatuma Ndangiza, Bishop John Rucyahana, Rev. Stephen Gahigi |
Notes |
In English and Kinyarwanda with English subtitles |
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Won 2008 International Documentary Association Awards, David L. Wolper Student Best Documentary Award |
Subject |
Rwandans.
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Forgiveness -- Rwanda
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Reconciliation -- Social aspects -- Rwanda
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Social change -- Rwanda
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Social conflict -- Rwanda
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Genocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century
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War victims -- Rwanda -- Biography
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National characteristics, Rwandan.
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National characteristics, Rwandan
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Atrocities
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Ethnic relations
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Forgiveness
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Genocide
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Politics and government
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Rwandans
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Social change
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Social conditions
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Social conflict
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War victims
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Rwanda -- Social conditions
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Rwanda -- Ethnic relations
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Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities.
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Rwanda -- Politics and government -- 1994-
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Rwanda
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Genre/Form |
documentary film.
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Biographies
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Documentary films
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Feature films
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History
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Nonfiction films
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Feature films.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Hinson, Laura Waters, director, producer
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Farrow, Mia, 1945- narrator.
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MPower Pictures, production company.
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Image Bearer Pictures, production company, publisher.
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