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This is a filmography for films and artistry on the graphic, theatrical and conventional, documental portrayal of the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis in 1994. In 2005 Alison Des Forges wrote that eleven years after the genocide films for popular audiences on the subject greatly increased "widespread realization of the horror that had taken the lives of more than half a million Tutsi".
A paperback novel published by Newmarket Press, titled Hotel Rwanda: Bringing the True Story of an African Hero to Film, released on 7 February 2005, dramatizes the events of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, as depicted in the film, and expands on the ideas of how Rusesabagina sheltered and saved more than 1,200 people in the hotel he managed in ...
Films about the Rwandan genocide (1994), part of the Rwandan Civil War.During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu militias.
Shake Hands being filmed in Kigali, July 2006. A co-production of Barna-Alper Productions, of Toronto, and Halifax Film Company, of Nova Scotia, the movie was directed by Roger Spottiswoode (Tomorrow Never Dies, And the Band Played On) and filmed in part on location in Kigali, Rwanda, from mid-June to early August 2006 before returning to Halifax for its "final shoot".
The title of the film is a direct reference to the length of time that passed from the beginning of the genocide on 6 April until it ended in mid-July 1994. The film was the first feature film made about the 1994 genocide and focuses on the life of a young, refugee Tutsi girl and her attempts to find safety while the genocide is taking place. [ 1 ]
Based on true accounts, [2] the film consists of six interwoven tales of several events happening as the genocide takes place. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Mosques become a place of refuge, [ 5 ] and the taboo of interethnic marriage between a Hutu and a Tutsi is also depicted.
The movie takes the concept of a home invasion and flips it on its head, serving not just as a horrifying narrative but also as a meta-commentary on the audience's consumption of violence.
Hotel Rwanda, a 2004 film dealing with the genocide that centers on the Hôtel des Mille Collines, a location also seen in Sometimes in April. A Sunday in Kigali (French title: Un Dimanche à Kigali), a 2006 Canadian feature film by Robert Favreau set during the genocide against Tutsi.