My Neighbor My Killer

When peace comes, how do you make it right again? In My Neighbor My Killer, award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion has filmed for over a decade in a tiny rural hamlet, and has charted the impact of the Gacaca (ga-CHA-cha) on survivors and perpetrators alike. Through their fear and anger, accusations and defenses, blurry truths, inconsolable sadness and hope for life renewed, she captures the emotional journey to co-existence.
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In Rwanda we say... The family that does not speak dies

Since 1999, award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion has traveled to rural Rwanda, to chart the impact of that country’s efforts at ethnic reconciliation. This, her second film on the subject, continues Aghion’s quest to learn how the human spirit survives a trauma as unfathomable as the attempt, in 1994, to wipe out the Tutsi minority, with 800,000 lives claimed in 100 days. A fascinating and intimate look at how, and whether, people can overcome fear, hatred and deep emotional scars, to forge a common future after genocide.
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Gacaca... Living together again in Rwanda?

Venturing into the rural heart of the African nation of Rwanda, this film follows the first steps in one of the world’s boldest experiments in reconciliation: the Gacaca (Ga-CHA-cha) Tribunals. These are a new form of citizen-based justice, aimed at unifying this country of 8 million people, after the 1994 genocide. Award-winning documentarian Anne Aghion bypasses the usual interviews with politicians and aid workers, skips the statistics, and goes directly to the emotional core of the story, talking one-on-one with survivors and accused killers alike.
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reviews

"Nuanced and intelligent"
—Alison des Forges

"Astonishing"
—The Washington Post

"Captures quite precisely much of what is most compelling and unsettling about Rwanda's quest for justice after genocide."
—Philip Gourevitch