General information

Call No.:

350-3-1:16/1

Part of series

HU OSA 350-3-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Africa: Rwanda

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #16 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009729

Date of production

1996

Date

1996

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

French, English, Kinyarwanda, English

Duration

54 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

A documentary on the role of the church in the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The church became dominant in Rwanda in the 1930s due to the work of the colonialists and missionaries, as well as the adoption of the Roman Catholic faith by the Rwandan king. At first, the church was primarily an institution of Tutsis. In the early 1960s, after the Hutus overthrew the Tutsi government, the number of Hutus affiliated with the church grew considerably. At the time of the genocide, the followers and church workers were both Hutu and Tutsi. Lindsey Hilsum, who lived in Rwanda before and during the genocide, returns to Rwanda to investigate the actual involvement of the church - direct and indirect, positive and negative, active and passive – in the massacres. She interviews a number of representatives of the church, as well as victims and survivors of the genocide, and goes deep into the events of 1994, revealing the moral dilemmas that still hunt Rwandans. Featured in this film are: Laurien Ntezimana (Theologian, Diocese of Butare), Father Tito Mutemangando, Monsignor Phocas Nikwigize, (Bishop, Diocese of Ruhenge), Father Balthazar Habimana, Father Modeste Mungwaraseba, Father Denis Sekamana, Father Jean Bosco Munyawera , Sister Teya Kakuze, Monsignor Augustin Misago (Bishop of Gikongoro).

Context

Associated Names

Hilsum, Lindsey (Presenter, Reporter)

Hughes, Nick (Camera)

Bate, Peter (Director, Producer)

Channel 4 (Copyright holder)

Blackstone Pictures (Producer)