The Notebooks of Memory
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| director = Anne Aghion
| producer = Anne Aghion
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| cinematography = {{ubl|James Kakwerere|Linette Frewin}}
| editing = Nadia Ben Rachid
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| released = {{Film date|2009}}
| runtime = 53 minutes
| country = {{ubl|France|United States}}
| language = Kinyarwanda
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The Notebooks of Memory is the third documentary film in a trilogy by Anne Aghion examining the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.
Synopsis
Anne Aghion's third film in her Rwanda series concentrates on the local citizen-judges' tribunals, where they must weigh survivor accounts of the genocide massacres against the perpetrators' testimony.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gacacafilms.com/notebooks/index.html |title=The Notebooks of Memory: Documentary Film on Gacaca |accessdate=2010-03-08}}
On a lush Rwandan hillside, more than ten years after the 1994 genocide directed at wiping out the Tutsi population, a tiny rural community repeatedly meet on the grass for the Gacaca court trials, a judicial experiment aimed at bringing unity back to the country. Award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion spent four years chronicling the trials, where perpetrators would barter confessions for shorter jail sentences.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gacacafilms.com/notebooks/index.html |title=The Notebooks of Memory: Documentary Film on Gacaca |accessdate=2010-03-08}}
References
External links
- [http://www.gacacafilms.com Official website]
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Category:French documentary films
Category:Documentary films about the Rwandan genocide
Category:Films directed by Anne Aghion
Category:Kinyarwanda-language films
Category:2009 documentary films
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