awards and praise

The Washington Post: “Aghion has taken her camera deep into Rwandan life, to chronicle how the country's survivors and perpetrators are trying to live together anew… The narrative is carried by the tension that shows plainly in the faces of Aghion's subjects, in their difficult but always poetic words, in their long silences, in the haunting thunder and rain that roar over the deeply rural and impoverished place called Gafumba… There are no bodies in Aghion's films. Her work focuses on life after the genocide, on the lives of the living.” Full Article

The Washington Post: “An astonishing [film]…” Full Article

Le Monde: (French daily newspaper) “[The filmmaker’s] sensitive point of view, coupled with a strong political awareness, allows her to film the victims and their executioners with complete modesty… Anne Aghion’s films show the infinite pain of the country…”

Le Monde: (French daily newspaper) “Universal theater. Riveting.”

Variety: “Much of docu’s power derives from extraordinary lensing… characterized by deep, radiant color and seemingly effortless painterly compositions.” Full Article

The Connecticut Post: “The filmmaker’s taste and restraint has resulted in two of the most remarkable documentaries you are likely to see this year.”

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“With extraordinary sensitivity, Aghion takes us into the heart of the problem of reconciliation in a post-genocidal society – not with wordy abstractions but with the earthy, real expressions of the people, victims and accused criminals, who must try to live together. Those seeking to know whether reconciliation is possible in Rwanda must look for their answer in this compelling expression of Rwandan voices.”

—Alison des Forges
Senior Adviser to the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch. Author of Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, hailed as 'the most extensive and authoritative account of the Rwanda genocide yet published.' 1999 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows grant for her Human Rights work.