Events

October 17, 2014

Portraits from changing Rwanda

2014 marks the 20th commemoration of the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. Over 800,000 victims in three months only, while the West closed its eyes. Since then, the new government has promoted a strong reconciliation policy and introduced important social transformations aimed at creating a « new Rwanda » where a genocide would not be possible. However, the memory of the massacres is very much present in the daily life of Rwandans today, and the authoritarian control of the government strongly limits the freedom of expression in a country where all references to ethnicity have been abolished.
October 17, 2014

Love Radio Rwanda

Love Radio combines film with photography, audio, text and archive material. Using fragments from the soap, portraits of the creators, fan mail from listeners and images of the magical ‘guilty’ landscape, it gradually becomes clear that ‘the truth’ does not exist – only different versions of reality.