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Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is highly elevated, giving it the soubriquet "land of a thousand hills" (French: pays des mille collines), with its geography dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the southeast, with numerous lakes throughout the country. The climate is temperate to subtropical, with two rainy seasons and two dry seasons each year. It is the most densely populated mainland African country; among countries larger than 10,000 km2, it is the fifth most densely populated country in the world. Its capital and largest city is Kigali. Hunter-gatherers settled the territory in the Stone and Iron Ages, followed later by Bantu peoples. The population coalesced first into clans, and then into kingdoms. In the 15th century, one kingdom, under King Gihanga, managed to incorporate several of its close neighbor territories establishing the Kingdom of Rwanda. The Kingdom of Rwanda dominated from the mid-eighteenth century, with the Tutsi kings conquering others militarily, centralising... ()
Languages used in Rwanda: English | French | Swahili | Kinyarwanda

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Shake Hands With the Devil(2007)

1h 52min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

Canadian Lt. General Romeo Dallaire was the military commander of the UN mission in Rwanda and this movie is personal and, all too true, story of his time there during the genocide of 1994. It is not quite as moving as the earlier Hotel Rwanda and is less geared to drama and emotional manipulation, but it is still grim and upsetting.

Directed by Roger Spottiswoode - With Roy Dupuis, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Deborah Kara Unger, James Gallanders, Tom McCamus, Owen Sejake, ...

Sometimes in April(2005)

2h 20min | Drama, History, War
3.6/5 (with 29 votes)

Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Directed by Raoul Peck - With Idris Elba, Debra Winger, Oris Erhuero, Carole Karemera, Noah Emmerich, Pamela Nomvete, ...
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Small Country: An African Childhood(2020)

1h 52min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 68 votes)

Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.

Directed by Éric Barbier - With Jean-Paul Rouve, Veronika Varga

Neptune Frost(2022)

1h 50min | Drama, Science Fiction, Music, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

In the hilltops of Burundi, a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry.

Directed by Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams - With Eliane Umuhire, Dorcy Rugamba

The Mercy of the Jungle(2019)

1h 31min | War, Drama
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

The Mercy of the Jungle is a road movie that deals with wars in Congo through the eyes of two lost soldiers in the jungle by showcasing their struggle, weakness and hope.

Directed by Joel Karekezi - With Marc Zinga, Michael Wawuyo Jr., Ronald Ssemaganda, Were Edrine, Okuyo Joel Atiku Prynce, Stéphane Bak, ...

Kinyarwanda(2011)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man fall in love amid chaos; a soldier struggles to foster a greater good while absent from her family; and a priest grapples with his faith in the face of unspeakable horror.

Directed by Alrick Brown

Africa United(2010)

1h 28min | Drama, Action, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

The extraordinary story of three Rwandan children who attempt to realize the dream of their life: to attend the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2010 at Johannesburg.

Directed by Debs Paterson - With Emmanuel Jal

Mama Rwanda(2016)

30min | Documentary

MAMA RWANDA is the story of two women mixing the wit of motherhood with the spirit of entrepreneurship to overcome extreme poverty. Drocella, a village wife, and Christine, a city widow, represent a new generation of women business-owners transforming post-genocide Rwanda into one of the top ten fastest growing economies in the world. A modern tale of the work/life balancing act, MAMA RWANDA illuminates the remarkable lives of two working mothers in the developing world.

Directed by Laura Waters Hinson

Ace of Hearts: Lord of Hearts(2017)

2h | Action, Drama, Mystery

Manzi David, a man whose sister's days are numbered with heart disease. Heartbroken and determined as ever to rally money for her treatment, Manzi David sets himself on a path of no return when he takes on two of the country's most notorious casino bosses in a lethal bet.

Our Lady of the Nile(2020)

1h 33min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

Rwanda, 1973. In the prestigious catholic institute 'Notre-Dame du Nil', perched on a hill, young Rwandan girls study to become the elite of the country. In the process of graduating, they share the same dormitory, the same dreams, the same problems of teenage girls. But in every corner of the country as well as in the school there are deep antagonisms that will forever change the destiny of these young girls and the whole country.

Directed by Atiq Rahimi

God Sleeps in Rwanda(2005)

28min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A powerful documentary about five women whose lives have been irrevocably altered by the Rwandan genocide. With the country left nearly 70% female in the wake of the massacres, "God Sleeps In Rwanda" is a lucid portrait of the much larger change affected by women in the East African country.

Directed by Kimberlee Acquaro

Mother Land(2023)

10min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

There she stands, confidently, like a goddess of technological junk, surrounded by endless mountains of rubbish, plastic, stench and rare earths. Her accusations are angry, composed and to the point.

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Unforgiven: Rwanda(2023)

1h 15min | Documentary

What is a socially acceptable conversation when your family's killer sits down to dinner? 'Unforgiven' explores the interactions between murderers, rapists, thieves and their victims in this documentary exploring the power of restorative justice, forgiveness and reconciliation 20 years after the Rwandan Genocide.

Directed by Lukas Augustin

Beyond Right & Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness(2012)

1h 20min | Documentary
2.6/5 (with 1 vote)

A survivor of the Rwandan Genocide struggles to forgive the man who killed her children. A victim’s daughter strikes up an unusual friendship with the ex-IRA bomber who killed her father. And two men—one Israeli, one Palestinian—form a bond after tragedies claim their daughters.

Directed by Roger Spottiswoode

Grey Matter(2011)

1h 50min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Balthazar is a young African filmmaker on the brink of directing his first project, The Cycle of the Cockroach, a fictional story about a young woman who survived unspeakable atrocities only to find herself committed to the same mental institution as a man driven insane by the crimes he perpetrated during the war. Potential funders for the film insist the themes are too bleak and pessimistic-they encourage Balthazar to make a "message" film that raises awareness about gender-based violence or HIV/AIDS instead. But he refuses to give up. Instead of telling his production team the news, Balthazar continues preparations for the film without financing or equipment. After rehearsing a scene with each of the characters, reality blurs and scenes from the script materialize, provoking the question: Can a film like this exist only in the director's dreams? Armed with a daring and creative visual language...

Directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza - With Miss Shanel

Fight Like A Girl(2023)

Drama

A young Congolese woman, forced to work in an illegal mineral mine, escapes her captors. She finds a new life for herself after joining a renowned all-women boxing club in the border city of Goma.

100 Days(2001)

1h 40min | Drama

The film centers on a pair of young lovers; Bapiste is more than ready to have sex with his girlfriend Josette, but she refuses, arguing that when they are married they can have all the sex they would like. Meanwhile, powerful Hutu leaders have had enough of Tutsi rebels and call on all Hutus to kill their Tutsi neighbors. As chaos breaks out, the Tutsis flee and the lovers are separated. Josette and her family find solace in a Catholic church run by a sadistic priest. The Catholic Church, the state, and the French army look the other way as bloodshed ensues. Josette is taken as a "wife" by the priest and repeatedly raped. When the Belgian army sent in to protect the church is called away on an emergency, the Hutus attack and massacre hundreds of women and children. Josette miraculously survives, but she is only a husk of the woman that she was. As the Tutsis regroup, they exact terrible revenge.

Directed by Nick Hughes

Coexist(2023)

53min | Documentary, History, War
2.4/5 (with 1 vote)

Coexist tells the emotional stories of women who survived the Rwandan genocide in 1994. They continue to cope with the loss of their families as the killers who created this trauma return from jail back to the villages where they once lived. Faced with these perpetrators on a daily basis, the victims must decide whether they can forgive them or not. Their decisions are unfathomable to many, and speak to a humanity that has survived the worst violence imaginable.

Things of the Aimless Wanderer(2015)

1h 31min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An unusual African film with a powerful visual narrative style and an experimental electronic score. The Aimless Wanderer of the title is a white man making an African travelogue. He meets a local girl who soon disappears. Little by little, fear and paranoia overcome him.

Directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza

When I was young I said I would be happy(2014)

1h 18min | Documentary

WHEN I WAS YOUNG I SAID I WOULD BE HAPPY is a feature length documentary about the transformation achieved by 12 orphan genocide survivors in Rwanda after participating in a new form of sustainable humanitarian aid called Project LIGHT. Using a train the trainer model, these young people called Ambassadors, were trained to heal their Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and their hearts as well as teach others to do the same. In only two short years they paid forward their healing to hundreds, from Rwanda to Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

Mitochondrial(2020)

5min | Documentary

A poetic, experimental, and auditory allegory of black women and mitochondria, the powerhouse of our cells.

I Have Seen My Last Born(2015)

1h 19min | Documentary

'I Have Seen My Last Born' is about Rwanda in transition from its difficult and violent past towards development, seen through the life of a man who juggles the roles of father and a son, between the city and the village.

RWANDArt(2016)

52min | Documentary

Documentary about Rwanda's growing creative scene: art, dance, fashion, and music.

I Got My Things And Left(2018)

22min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Eric is no more. His friends meet at his house to spend a night together. They reflect on life, find support, exchange anecdotes and bring memories of Eric to life. An intimate film about mourning and friendship.

The Rwandan Child(1986)

Drama

A campaign is launched to prevent peasants from leaving the countryside for the city. The village tries to adapt the advice of the technicians for self-sufficiency.

Behind This Convent(2023)

1h 6min

April 10th, 1994. Killers stormed a convent in of the small hill towns of Rwanda. They selected two hundred Tutsis from the group and executed them behind this convent. Behind This Convent is the story of from the point of view of survivors who have witnessed the darkest hour of the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

Directed by Gilbert Ndahayo

The Uncondemned(2016)

1h 21min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

In 1997, a group of lawyers and activists prosecuted rape as a crime against humanity. This is the story of their fight for the first conviction.

Directed by Nick Louvel, Michele Mitchell

Giants of Africa(2016)

1h 17min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Award-winning Canadian documentarian Hubert Davis chronicles the inspirational work of Giants of Africa, a program founded by Toronto Raptors GM Masai Ujiri that uses basketball to educate and enrich the lives of underprivileged African youth.

Directed by Hubert Davis - With Masai Ujiri

Kiruna-Kigali(2012)

15min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A young woman in Rwanda is about to give birth. The baby is turned the wrong way and her life is in danger. At the same time the water breaks for a woman in Sweden. She decides that she will cope with it herself; she refuses to accept any help. These two stories of women giving birth are woven into each other and appear to go on simultaneously in two completely different parts of the world.

The Barefoot Artist(2014)

1h 23min | Documentary
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Lily Yeh is a global artist who is fueled by a belief that art is a human right, and that artists can create a foundation for profound social change. Slight of frame, but large in spirit and vision, the 70-year-old artist was born in China, lives in Philadelphia, and now, as constant traveler, the world is her canvas. Our film explores two sides of Lily's life that are connected parts of the same journey: her international ventures helping to heal weakened spirits in communities around the world and a personal journey within, to repair her own fractured family.

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