The Notebooks of Memory

The Notebooks of Memory
Directed by Anne Aghion
Produced by Anne Aghion
Cinematography James Kakwerere
Linette Frewin
Edited by Nadia Ben Rachid
Release dates
 Spring, 2009
Running time
 53 minutes
Country France
United States
Language Kinyarwanda with English subtitles

The Notebooks of Memory is the third documentary film in a trilogy by Anne Aghion examining the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide.

Plot

Anne Aghion's third film in her Rwanda series concentrates on the local citizen-judges' tribunals, where they must weigh survivor accounts of the genocide massacres against the perpetrators' testimony.[1]

On a lush Rwandan hillside, more than ten years after the 1994 genocide directed at wiping out the Tutsi population, a tiny rural community repeatedly meet on the grass for the Gacaca court trials, a judicial experiment aimed at bringing unity back to the country. Award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion spent four years chronicling the trials, where perpetrators would barter confessions for shorter jail sentences.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "The Notebooks of Memory: Documentary Film on Gacaca". Retrieved 2010-03-08.
  2. ↑ "The Notebooks of Memory: Documentary Film on Gacaca". Retrieved 2010-03-08.
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