ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival 2010

Could you ever forgive the people who slaughtered your family? In 1994 hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus were incited to wipe out the country’s Tutsi minority. From the crowded capital to the smallest village, local “patrols” massacred lifelong friends and family members, most often with machetes and improvised weapons. In 2001, as part of the reconciliation process, confessed genocide killers are sent home from prison, while traumatized survivors are asked to forgive them and resume living side-by-side. Multiple award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion has been praised as a documentarian who succeeds in conveying a strong sense of the people and places she covers. She filmed My Neighbour My Killer over the course of nine years. Sponsored by Kawartha Ploughshares