Three years have passed since the genocide, and Rwanda is looking to the future. In Nyange school, students Helene, Valens, Seraphine and Emmauel are friends regardless of their Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds: they play sports, match-make and enjoy life like normal teenagers, encouraged by their teacher Murigande to address the issues resulting from 1994's atrocities. But on March 18th 1997, rebels attack the school, bent on massacre and destabilising Rwanda's fragile peace. The friends find themselves alone and defenseless, and faced with the decision of their lives: separate and betray their Tutsi friends - or risk everything to stand together. We Are All Rwandans is a true story, dramatised with the help of surviving students, and filmed on location in Nyange school in western Rwanda.
RWANDA/UK / 2007 / 25 mins
Language: Kinyarwanda
Director: Debs Gardner-Paterson
Producers: Ayuub Kasasa Mago, Sven Pannell
Screenwriters: Ayuub Kasasa Mago, Debs Gardner-Paterson
Principal Cast: Gladys Uwera, Kennedy Mazimpaka, Solange Umuhire, Sonia Uwimbabazi, Viateur Munderere
Genre: Drama
Short
If you would like to order a copy of We Are All Rwandans on DVD (which comes as a double disk set with the DVD - french & english subtitles - and the beautiful original soundtrack on CD), please contact us. The usual price is £8 (of which £5 goes to school sponsorship and the fund to support survivors of the Nyange attack in Rwanda), plus £2 p&p.
Either contact Debs direct if you have her details or use the form at www.catsiye.com
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Production Blog: rwandashortfilm.blogspot.com
FESTIVALS / AWARDS
2008 | Bend Film Festival | BEND (Oregon), Usa | 9-12 Oct
* Selection
2008 | Non-Violence International Film Festival | Cambridge, Ontario, Canada | September
* Selection
2008 | LA Shorts | LOS ANGELES, Usa
* Selection
2008 | Jacksonville Film Festival | JACKSONVILLE, USa | From May 15-21st | www.jacksonvillefilmfestival.com
* Selection [Programme:'the Short of It']
* Selection [Programme:''Black Cinema'']
* Selection [Programme:'World of Docs']
2008 | Cannes International Film Festival | CANNES, France | from May 14th-26th | www.shortfilmcorner.com
* Registered: Short Film Corner
2008 | Phoenix Film Festival | http://phoenixfilmfestival.org/pages/story-view.php?id=418
* Best World Cinema Short
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