Kinyarwanda (film)
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Kinyarwanda tells the story of hope, redemption and religious tolerance in the midst of the 1994 Rwandan genocide
. It premiered at the 27th Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award. The film marks Brown's directorial debut.
Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days through mid-July, over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate...
. It premiered at the 27th Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award. The film marks Brown's directorial debut.
Cast
- Edouard Bamporiki as Emmanuel
- Cassandra Freeman as Lt. Rose
- Hadidja Zaninka as Jean
- Cleophas Kabasiita as Francine
- Kennedy Mpazimpaka as Father Pierre