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Reviews of In Rwanda We Say...

Emmy Award Winner, 2005

"One of the most remarkable documentaries you are likely to see this year."
—Connecticut Post. Read the article (pdf) >

"With extraordinary sensitivity, Aghion takes us into the heart of the problem of reconciliation in a post-genocidal society - not with wordy abstractions but with the earthy, real expressions of the people, victims and accused criminals, who must try to live together. Those seeking to know whether reconciliation is possible in Rwanda must look for their answer in this compelling expression of Rwandan voices."
—Alison des Forges, Senior Advisor to Human Rights Watch, Africa

"Astonishing"
—The Washington Post. Read the article >

"Aghion has taken her camera deep into Rwandan life, to chronicle how the country's survivors and perpetrators are trying to live together anew. The narrative is carried by the tension that shows plainly in the faces of Aghion's subjects, in their difficult but always poetic words, in their long silences, in the haunting thunder and rain that roar over the deeply rural and impoverished place called Gafumba. There are no bodies in Aghion's films. Her work focuses on life after the genocide, on the lives of the living."
—The Washington Post. Read the article >

"Recommended!"
—Educational Media Reviews Online

The Villager reviews a film by Anne Aghion "excellent" and "riveting"
—LA Weekly. Read the article pdf >

"[These] unpretentious films about Rwanda cover ground not covered in [other films]."
—The Villager. Read the article pdf >

“Universal theater. Riveting. [The filmmaker’s] sensitive point of view, coupled with a strong political awareness, allows her to film the victims and their executioners with complete modesty… Anne Aghion’s films show the infinite pain of the country…”
—Le Monde

“Much of docu’s power derives from extraordinary lensing… characterized by deep, radiant color and seemingly effortless painterly compositions."
—Variety. Read the article >