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Kanopy
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6.7
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/18/
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/17/
3.6
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/30/
61
/24/
78
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Munyurangabo (2008)
An orphan of the Rwandan genocide travels from Kigali to the countryside on a quest for justice.
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100
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Seven (2025)
After the tragic death of her mother, Sam is forced to stay with her abusive father who is more than willing to step in between her and her future. Sam's Life Changes when she crosses path with Chloe who becomes her friend and convinces her to escape from her father. together, they plot a way out, even though things are not easier as they might seem to be
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7.1
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Minimals in a Titanic World (2025)
Fresh out of jail, Anita is supposed to control her aggression. Physical warmth, grief and intimacy. Almost without plot, the film draws on light, colour, style, dance and great music to enter a group of friends with someone missing at its heart.
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100
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The Things We Don’t Say (2024)
30 years after the genocide that tore apart their mothers’ worlds, a group of young Rwandans confront the family secrets and the wounds their generation is carrying. They are led by Emilienne, a therapist and genocide survivor, to try to break cycles of intergenerational trauma together.
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6.7
/24/
60
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50
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Imfura (2017)
The ruins of a house represent the remains of the genocide in Rwanda. A young man attempts to remember his mother, who disappeared.
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63
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5.9
/39/
65
/2/
3.3
/401/

Mother Land (2023)
There she stands, confidently, like a goddess of technological junk, surrounded by endless mountains of rubbish, plastic, stench and rare earths. Her accusations are angry, composed and to the point.
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64
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6.9
/32/
60
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60
/1/
3.5
/224/

The Bride (2023)
Eva, a young Rwandan woman, dreams of attending medical school. But her aspirations are interrupted when she is kidnapped by a group of men as a part of the Guterura rite of enforced marriage. Abandoned by her family, she struggles to cope with the grim reality of her new life with her new husband Silas and his cousin. While Silas is away working, the two young women form a tender connection as they spend their days doing household chores, beading, making tea, and swapping family histories and memories of the genocide. Despite this newfound ally, Eva contemplates running away to a life of freedom.
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6.8
/22/
23
/3/
20
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Father's Day (2022)
Three family stories intersect in present-day Rwanda: a mother tries to cope with the loss of her son, a young woman takes care of the ailing father she never truly loved, and a small-time criminal prepares his son for a life of living by his wits.
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7.4
/19/
60
/1/
75
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John Bishop's Gorilla Adventure (2015)
John Bishop encounters one of the most endangered animals on Earth, and discovers they and his family have more in common than he ever imagined. Filming in the jungles of Rwanda for John Bishop’s Gorilla Adventure, the comedian realises adolescent male mountain gorillas are just like his teenage sons – bulging muscles but no sense. Plus they fart, flirt and pick their noses. We follow John as he joins a group of vets who have dedicated their lives to saving the, sadly, precious few mountain gorillas left in the wild rugged mountains and valleys between the borders of Rwanda, Congo and Uganda, which were made famous to UK viewers by David Attenborough’s iconic sequence filmed among them in the 1970s.
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6.9
/34/

The Pardon (2013)
After being imprisoned for the killing of ethnic Tutsis during the Rwandan genocide, Manzi must face the emotional and psychological consequences of his most personal crime: the murder of his best friend's family.
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6.7
/53/
50
/1/
60
/3/

Kiruna-Kigali (2012)
A young woman in Rwanda is about to give birth. The baby is turned the wrong way and her life is in danger. At the same time the water breaks for a woman in Sweden. She decides that she will cope with it herself; she refuses to accept any help. These two stories of women giving birth are woven into each other and appear to go on simultaneously in two completely different parts of the world.
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5.3
/17/
60
/2/

I Got My Things and Left (2018)
Eric is no more. His friends meet at his house to spend a night together. They reflect on life, find support, exchange anecdotes and bring memories of Eric to life. An intimate film about mourning and friendship.
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6.5
/14/
78
/2/

Home (2021)
A young woman goes back to her native village fleeing from an abusive marriage and looking for emotional support. However, she will find herself facing the hostile attitude of her family and social norms ruling what a real woman should be.
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7.5
/7/

A Place for Myself (2017)
At a casual elementary school comes a five year old albino girl, Elikia. Due to her skin color her classmates make her realize that her being 'different' is more a problem than a special trait. While the neighborhood treats her as a stereotype, her mother encourages her. Together, they fight back and raise their voice to find a place for themselves.
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40
/1/

She (2015)
All of her life, Laura has carried a big secret in her heart. But everything changes in one day when she gives in to a chance encounter.
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7.8
/95/
57
/4/
65
/2/
100
/10/
73
/1/

My Neighbor, My Killer (2009)
The people of Rwanda attempt to reconcile after the genocide through an open process of admission and forgiveness.
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7.5
/44/
60
/2/
50
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Things of the Aimless Wanderer (2015)
An unusual African film with a powerful visual narrative style and an experimental electronic score. The Aimless Wanderer of the title is a white man making an African travelogue. He meets a local girl who soon disappears. Little by little, fear and paranoia overcome him.
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10
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The Rwandan Child (1986)
A campaign is launched to prevent peasants from leaving the countryside for the city. The village tries to adapt the advice of the technicians for self-sufficiency.
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Kanopy
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7.6
/90/
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42
/5/
54
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100 Days (2001)
The film centers on a pair of young lovers; Bapiste is more than ready to have sex with his girlfriend Josette, but she refuses, arguing that when they are married they can have all the sex they would like. Meanwhile, powerful Hutu leaders have had enough of Tutsi rebels and call on all Hutus to kill their Tutsi neighbors. As chaos breaks out, the Tutsis flee and the lovers are separated. Josette and her family find solace in a Catholic church run by a sadistic priest. The Catholic Church, the state, and the French army look the other way as bloodshed ensues. Josette is taken as a "wife" by the priest and repeatedly raped. When the Belgian army sent in to protect the church is called away on an emergency, the Hutus attack and massacre hundreds of women and children. Josette miraculously survives, but she is only a husk of the woman that she was. As the Tutsis regroup, they exact terrible revenge.
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40
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Ethereality (2019)
Stranded in space for thirty years. How does it feel to finally come home? A reflection about migration and the sense of belonging.
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72
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7.4
/288/
76
/11/
65
/4/
79
/24/
84
/7/
58
/9/

Rising from Ashes (2013)
“Rising from Ashes” is a feature length documentary about the first Rwandan National Cycling Team and their six year journey to the Olympic games in London. It's not about the bike. It's about second chances, how our past doesn't have to define our future, and the impossible triumph of the human spirit over one of the world's most devastating genocides.
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Ako Kantu (2026)
In this satirical short film, a failed journalist’s Valentine’s Day interview with a local thief escalates from a cynical bid for clicks into a profound discovery.
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Not a Choice (2025)
A tender portrait of two transgender souls, navigating the harsh tides of family violence and societal rejection. Through the language of music and dance, they discover the rhythm of the struggle and the grace in freedom. And in so doing, seize the chance to be seen and heard.
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Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League (2025)
Showcases the importance of sports to the African continent's future as well as the complex relationship between America and Africa and how The BAL is a bridge between the two.
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Lyiza (2011)
The past is always present in the life of Lyiza who has to live with the traumatic memory of her parents' murder, during the genocide in Rwanda. When she recognizes in the father of her classmate, the person responsible for their murder, a great tension started. The harmony returns through the intervention of a teacher who takes the youngsters to the museum of the genocide, the place of memory, and guides Lyiza towards forgiveness.
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Behind the word (2012)
A young student finds her lack of English brings her considerable ridicule from her classmates.
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THE SILENT PURSUIT (2024)
An intense action-drama about a skilled detective unraveling a dangerous web of secrets while chasing a mysterious fugitive. With high-stakes conflicts and emotional undertones, the story explores themes of justice, sacrifice, and redemption.
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Diena (2024)
In Central Africa, a young domestic worker waits for God to intervene.
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Confession (2008)
Thirteen years after the genocide, we meet a family man in Rwanda who suffers from a bad conscience. The evening before the genocide started he raped a young woman and left her to her self. He has been unable to forget her ever since.
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Traces of Responsibility (2024)
The interactive roadmovie follows the trail of a convicted war criminal with ties to Switzerland. On a journey through contemporary Rwanda, the viewer decides how deeply he wants to immerse himself in the story.
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Citizen Kwame (2023)
Kwame, an African man, wants to travel outside of his compound, but he must first get a visa from a Caucasian gatekeeper who controls movements in-and-out of the house. It is only with the help of a Caucasian girlfriend that he succeeds.
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Uje (2023)
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Intore (2014)
A story of triumph, survival,hope, and a lesson in how to forgive and live, through the eyes of a mother whose grief gives hope and a lesson in how to forgive and live; an artist who chose to forgive rather than seek revenge. A group of young mean and women whose determination and hard work has given the Rwandan culture a new dimension of Identity and celebration. Through these characters and others, we bear witness to how the nation rose above the ashes of a horrific 1994, to become a world model of post-conflict peace and unity.
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Tenacity (2021)
Gatoni Maya, a 23-year-old brave girl, is resolved to fulfill her deceased father's dream of making a living through arts.
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Long Coat (2009)
Following the story of a genocide survivor as well as son of a killer, the film revolves around the meaning of an old coat and its symbolic value for the young boy’s dramatic past. (African Film Festival, New York)
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Versus (2016)
Alone in a European city, a young black man dives into dark corners of his mind, into the self.
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Icyasha (2018)
A bullied boy tries to join a boys football team.
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Europa, “Based on a True Story” (2019)
A hybrid film set in London by a Rwandan director, exploring a three­way relationship between a mysterious Nigerian man, a British woman and her ex. After his death, Simon appears to the ex as a ghost to tell his story, demanding a presence that was denied him as an asylum seeker. British and European political furor threaten both the director’s film plans and his stay in the UK. The fictional scenes are intercut with scenes of demonstrations.
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Breaking Ground (2020)
Mistreated in her relationship, a young woman decides to change the course of her life, let go for once and do as she pleases.
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Fish Bowl (2020)
After being confronted by his uncle on the night before his mother’s burial, an introverted artist is abruptly faced with his unforeseen feelings for a close friend.
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Mnemosyne (2020)
Mnemosyne is a eulogy by a grieving and nostalgic man for a mysterious girl he met when he was desperate and anxious about life. The meeting brought hope and since then, they briefly enjoyed each other’s company till the girl’s complicated past and the unfairness of life took over and grabbed her away.


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