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Gacaca (Ga-CHA-cha), which literally means "justice on the grass", is a form of citizen-based justice which the Rwandans decided to put into place to deal with the crimes of the 1994 genocide. Filming for over a decade in a tiny rural hamlet, Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Anne Aghion has charted the impact of the Gacaca on survivors and perpetrators alike.
 Feature length documentary film
My Neighbor My Killer
Winner of the Human Rights Watch 2009 Nestor Almendros Prize, an Official Selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and 2009 Gotham Award nominee.
When peace comes, how do you make it right again?
An epic journey in search of co-existence in Rwanda.
Could you ever forgive the people who slaughtered your family? In 1994, Rwanda’s Hutu populace was incited to wipe out the country’s Tutsi minority, with 800,000 lives claimed in 100 days.. In 1999, the government began the Gacaca (ga-CHA-cha)—open-air hearings with citizen-judges meant to try their neighbors and rebuild the nation. Through their fear and anger, accusations and defenses, blurry truths, inconsolable sadness and hope for life renewed, follow this emotional journey to co-existence.
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Award winning documentary film trilogy
 Gacaca, Living together again in Rwanda?
Unesco Fellini Prize Winner
Venture into the rural heart of the African nation of Rwanda and follow the first steps in one of the world’s boldest experiments in reconciliation: the Gacaca Tribunals. While world attention is focused on the unfolding procedures, documentary filmmaker Anne Aghion bypasses the usual interviews, skips the statistics, and goes directly to the emotional core of the story, talking one-on-one with survivors and accused killers alike. In this powerful, compassionate and insightful film... she captures first-hand how ordinary people struggle to find a future after cataclysm.
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 In Rwanda We Say... The family that does not speak dies
Emmy Award Winner
Continuing Aghion’s quest to learn how the human spirit survives a trauma so unfathomable, this chapter sees close to 16,000 suspects—still untried—released across Rwanda. Having confessed to their crimes and served the maximum sentence that the Gacaca will eventually impose, suspects of appalling crimes are sent home to plow fields and fetch water alongside their the neighbors they victimized. 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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 The Notebooks of Memory
On a lush green Rwandan hillside, more than a decade after the 1994 genocide, a small rural community gathers on the grass over and over again for the Gacaca trials. This final chapter in the trilogy follows the process, as a tribunal of local citizen-judges weighs survivor accounts of the massacres against the testimony of perpretrators who barter confessions for reduced prison sentences.
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A once-in-a-lifetime journey with Antarctica's 21st-century explorers
 Award-winning documentary filmmaker Anne Aghion takes you on an adventure in one of earth's most remote locations - Antarctica. Aghion joins geologists Allan Ashworth and Adam R. Lewis as they explore Antarctica's Dry Valleys in search of remnants of ancient life. Their tireless work to uncover the continent's geological past is driven by the still largely unknown history of our planet - a history that is critical to our understanding of what the future holds. While combing through the Dry Valleys, the team uncovers a monumental discovery in field science, an irrefutable reference to Antarctica's green past. ICE PEOPLE is a unique educational film that documents an almost unseen world and the people who are committed to pushing its extreme boundaries in the name of polar science. Watch as ICE PEOPLE conveys the vast beauty, the claustrophobia, the excitement and the stillness of an experience set to nature's rhythm.
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Multiple award-winning filmmaker