Intore opens the Rwanda Film Festival

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Intore opens the Rwanda Film Festival --

Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:16

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The Rwanda Film Festival (RFF), which runs from 12 to 18 July, will screen over 70 films which are divided into the following programming categories: Retrospective on Rwanda, Reflection on World Cultures, and Reflection on Young People on the Move. The festival will feature at three main locations in Kigali and approximately four countryside venues. Kigali locations include: The Century Cinema (KCT), Club Rafiki (Nyamirambo) and The Office (In Kiyovu).

Intore, a nonfiction film by Eric Kabera which tells the story of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis and Rwanda s recovery from the disaster, will open the festival. The movie features local music, dance, and interviews with the country s best dancers and musicians, including singer Cornelius Nyungura, who has not returned to Rwanda since the genocide. A screening of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom will close the festival, coinciding with Mandela s birthday, on 18 July.

Screenings for the Retrospective on Rwanda section will take place at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Gisozi. The films in this category are a development on RFF s regular Genocide Memorial Extension Program and will reflect on the past and how it continues to affect Rwandans today.

RFF will collaborate with a number of countries in order to present Chinese, Swiss, Swedish and Belgian films in the Reflection on World Cultures section. The screenings are available through RFF s partnerships with the International Short Film Festival Winterthur, the Swedish Film Institute, and the Afrika Film Festival Leuven. They will also collaborate with the GoetheInstitut and M diath que Fran aise in order to present additional European films.

Visit the RFF website for more information.

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