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
CinematographyJames Kakwerere
Linette Frewin
Edited byNadia Ben Rachid
Release date
Spring, 2009
Running time
53 minutes
CountryFrance
United States
LanguageKinyarwanda with English subtitles

Plot

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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