After the War
saturday june 9 | 14.30 hrs | Dutch premiere

Rwanda, the Hills Speak Out
Eleven years after the genocide, the film follows the survivors and torturers before and after the first Gacaca tribunals during which they meet each other face to face. There’s Obede, an accused child-killer whose request for pardon is simply a cynical release strategy. There’s also Gahutu, who has ‘no regrets’ and facing his judges he speaks of ‘snakes’ in reference to those being exterminated. And finally, there’s François, required to kill his own brother in order to survive and who is now trying to reconcile with is sister-in-law. Through these three stories, the film weaves a portrait of a society at war against the ideology of genocide which remains present.

Bernard Bellefroid (Belgium) | Rwanda | 2006 | 52 min | English subtitles

camera: Gil Decamp
sound: Quentin Jacques
editor: Yannick Leroy
producer: Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne
awards: Prix «Regard du monde sur l’Afrique et les pays créoles» au festival Vues d’Afrique de Montréal (Avril 2006), ex æquo | Best European Documentary Award au Huesca International Film Festival (du 8 au 17 juin 2006) | Prix de la Scam, section nationale, Docville | Bayard d’Or for Best Documentary at the Festival International du film de Namur | Peace Film Award at the Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück

contact: Cécile Hiernaux for Wallonie Image Production
t: +32 4 3401040
e: cecile.hiernaux@wip.be
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Born in Belgium in 1978, Bernard Bellefroid followed two years of undergraduate studies in journalism. In 2003, he graduated from the National Film School of Belgium (INSAS). ‘Rwanda, the hills speak out’ is his first documentary film. At the moment, he prepares his first long feature film ‘The Regatta’, produced by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and selected by the ‘Atelier du festival du film de Cannes’ 2006.