The Notebooks of Memory
This newly released third film in the series focuses on tribunals of local citizen-judges weighing survivor accounts of the massacres against the testimony of perpetrators. (2009)
On a lush green Rwandan hillside, more than a decade after the 1994 genocide to wipe out the Tutsi population, a small rural community gathers on the grass over and over again for the Gacaca (ga-CHA-cha) trials, a unique experiment in justice meant to bring unity back to this nation. In The Notebooks of Memory award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion spends four years following the process, as a tribunal of local citizen-judges weighs survivor accounts of the massacres against the testimony of perpretrators who barter confessions for reduced prison sentences.
Learn more about the filmmakers & supporters >
Educators
DVDs of the complete series are now available exclusively on this website. Buy DVDs >
Screenings:
- University of London: Center for Human Rights
Institute of Commonwealth Studies (2009)
- Woodrow Wilson Center in
Washington, DC (2009)
- Mémorial de la Shoah
Paris, France (14 May 2009)
A production of Gacaca Productions. 53 minutes. Stereo.
| Join us to receive occasional updates | |
 |
|