The Notebooks of Memory

The Notebooks of Memory is the third documentary film in a trilogy by Anne Aghion examining the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.

The Notebooks of Memory
Directed byAnne Aghion
Produced byAnne Aghion
Cinematography
  • James Kakwerere
  • Linette Frewin
Edited byNadia Ben Rachid
Release dates
Spring, 2009
Running time
53 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • United States
LanguageKinyarwanda with English subtitles

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.[1]

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.[2]

References
  1. "The Notebooks of Memory: Documentary Film on Gacaca". Retrieved 2010-03-08.
  2. "The Notebooks of Memory: Documentary Film on Gacaca". Retrieved 2010-03-08.


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