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The genocide in Rwanda (Itsembatsemba) took place amongst general indifference. On the 6th April 1994, a fury of purification swept the country. Within one hundred days, soldiers and militiamen (Interhamwe) massacred at least 700,000 Tutsis. These images were taken two years after the genocide, in April 1996. The sound track comes from Radio Télévision Mille Collines (Thousand Hills Free Broadcasting) - RTLM - and dates from April to June 1994. RTLM began to transmit in 1991 with the help of the regime and played a key role in the unleashing and the coordination of the killing.

ITSEMBATSEMBA, RWANDA A GENOCIDE LATER

A film directed and produced by
Eyal SIVAN

Assisted by
Armelle LABORIE
Images and Sound
Alexis CORDESSE
Photo Prints
Carole DELRIEU
Editor
Michèle COURBOU
Sound Editor and Mix
Eric LONNEUR
Sound Effects
Nicolas BECKER
Translations
Charles RUBAGUMYA
Written texts
Rony BRAUMAN
Sub-titles
Catherine NEUVE-EGLISE
Post-Production
Son pour Son
Etat d’Urgence Productions
Animation Stands
Ercidan
Laboratories
Mise au Point
Centrimage
Acknowledgments
Benjamin Bleton - Amit Breuer - Annette Gerlach - Céline Laborie
Madeleine Moukamabano - Christophe Picard - Jérôme Wirth Sam Productions
Médecins Sans Frontières - Reporters Sans Frontières - TheoPresse

AWARDS
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• GOLDEN GATE AWARD
San Fransisco International Film Festival, 1997

FESTIVALS SELECTION
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• Documenta XI, Cassel, 2002
• Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 2003
• International Human Rights Film Festival, Ramallah-Tel-Aviv, 2000
• Amnesty International Film Festival, Amsterdam, 1998
• Rencontres Cinématographiques de Seine St Denis, Résistance, 1998
• Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, 1997
• Festival Cinéma du Réel, Paris, 1997
• International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, 1996

Diverting the tone and format of the TV report, Eyal Sivan is pursuing his reflection on the representation of genocide and the political use of memory.
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