Movies: Ruth Nirere

Balthazar is a young African filmmaker on the brink of directing his first project, The Cycle of the Cockroach, a fictional story about a young woman who survived unspeakable atrocities only to find herself committed to the same mental institution as...

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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)...

In 1994, in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, during the first days of the Tutsi genocide. Jacqueline, a young Tutsi nanny, returns home, in her village, desperately looking for her children. When she finds them lying lifeless among the corpses, Jacquel...