Around the exhibition
For more than 10 years, the Shoah Memorial has been committed to teaching the history of the three genocides of the 20th century
Publishing
Booklet of the exhibition
screening - Sunday, May 18, 2014 > 11 a.m.
Kill them all! Rwanda, a story of genocide "without importance" by Raphaël Glucksmann and David Hazan
[France, documentary, 97 mn, Dum Dum Films, 2004]
April 1994, Rwanda falls into horror. For three months, the Hutu army, aided by militiamen and civilians, massacres nearly a million Tutsi. 10 years later, through interviews with key actors of this tragedy, testimonies of survivors, and a historical perspective, this investigative documentary questions the failure of the international community to preserve peace.
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screening - Sunday, May 18, 2014 > 2 PM
Kigali, images against a massacre by Jean-Christophe Klotz
[France, documentary, 94 mn, Sophie Dulac Distribution, 2006]
Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, was handed over in May 1994 to extremist Hutu militias as well as to the Rwandan army. The author, at the time a reporter and cameraman, is hit by a bullet in the hip during an attack on a parish where there are about a hundred refugees. Ten years later, he returns to the scene to find the trace of the possible survivors and his ephemeral "companions on the way". This film offers a reflection on the media and political treatment of these events.
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screening - Sunday, May 18, 2014 > 5:30 PM
A few days in April (Sometimes in April) by Raoul Peck
[United States, France, fiction, 140 mn, Velvet Film, 2005]
Through the fate of two brothers with opposite choices, Honoré Butera, host at Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, and Augustin Muganza, engaged in the Rwandan army and married to a Tutsi, the drama is evoked in its daily reality and complexity. Between past and present, this film reveals the attitudes and circumstances that have led the country on the path of intolerance, violence and mass murder.
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projection - Thursday, May 22, 2014 > 6:30 PM
7 days in Kigali with Mehdi Ba and Jérémy Frey
[France, documentary, 52 mn, Ladybirds Films, 2014, with the participation of France Télévisions]
On Wednesday 6 April 1994, just before 8:30 p.m., the Falcon 50 of President Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down by a missile as it began its descent into Kigali airport. Immediately, the Rwandan capital flares up, the extermination of the Tutsi in Rwanda begins. They are farmers, teachers, humanitarian workers, diplomats, journalists, soldiers, militiamen... They are Rwandan, Belgian, French, Swiss, Senegalese... Everyone is in Kigali this Wednesday, April 6, 1994, a little before 8:30 p.m.
In the presence of the directors
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projection - Thursday, May 22, 2014 > 8 p.m.
Homeland by Jacqueline Kalimunda
[France, documentary, 90 minutes, Émile Furieux Productions / Simba Productions, 2006, vostf]
Homeland is the journey of a woman who questions her land, her people and history through two generations in an attempt to grasp the genocide, the notion of ethnic difference and the recurrence of violence. Enriched with numerous unpublished archives, this documentary gives a central place to testimonies.
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projection - Thursday, June 5, 2014 > 6:30 PM
Rwanda, an unheard-of cry of silence by Anne Lainé
[France, documentary, 52 mn, Palindromes & Little Bear Productions, 2003]
This documentary makes us hear a cry that only echoed the unheard-of silence of the international community. Realized 9 years after the genocide of the Tutsi, it bears witness to the difficult psychic reconstruction of the survivors. It gives voice to survivors, psychiatrists and members of mutual aid associations. These testimonies, hesitant and modest, interspersed with long silences, say more about the genocide in Rwanda than grand speeches or streams of atrocious images.
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screening - Thursday, June 5, 2014 > 8 p.m.
My neighbor, my Anne Aghion killer
[France, United States, documentary, 90 mn, Gacaca Productions, 2008]
After the genocide of the Tutsi, in 2001 the government set up Gacaca, open-air popular courts intended to promote reconciliation. On the one hand, tens of thousands of killers are encouraged to confess their crimes in order to be able to go back home; on the other hand, their former Tutsi neighbors, traumatized survivors, are invited to forgive them. Anne Aghion filmed the community of a small rural village for ten years, and traced the impact of these Gacaca on survivors and criminals.
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symposium - Sunday, May 25, 2014 > 9h
Rwanda: April 1994. The great witnesses
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testimonies - Sunday 1
The word of the survivors
The words of survivors, on the painful path of recounting memory, make the link between the quest for knowledge, tribute to victims and the courage of survivors. Introduction Alain Ngirinshuti, survivor, vice-president of
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Monitoring of the projection of Itangaza
[France, documentary, 35 mn, Giraf Prod, Rwanda avenir, 2013]
In 1994, the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi caused nearly a million deaths in Rwanda. 125 widows and their children live in a housing estate, in an outlying district of the capital. To support them in a process of self-reconstruction, the
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testimonies - Sunday 1
The word of the survivors
The words of survivors, on the painful path of recounting memory, make the link between the quest for knowledge, tribute to victims and the courage of survivors.
Interviews
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Interviews
Twenty years after the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, a survivor testifies (ed. Les Belles Lettres), 2014,
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