AS WE FORGIVE
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AS WE FORGIVE
Could you forgive a person who murdered your family? This is the question faced by the subjects of As We Forgive, a documentary about Rosaria and Chantal—two Rwandan women coming face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. The subjects of As We Forgive speak for a nation still wracked by the grief of a genocide that killed one in eight Rwandans in 1994. Overwhelmed by an enormous backlog of court cases, the government has returned over 50,000 genocide perpetrators back to the very communities they helped to destroy. Without the hope of full justice, Rwanda has turned to a new solution: Reconciliation.
But can it be done? Can survivors truly forgive the killers who destroyed their families? Can the government expect this from its people? And can the church, which failed at moral leadership during the genocide, fit into the process of reconciliation today? In As We Forgive, director Laura Waters Hinson and narrator Mia Farrow explore these topics through the lives of four neighbors once caught in opposite tides of a genocidal bloodbath, and their extraordinary journey from death to life through forgiveness.
Running time: 53 minutes
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
Gold Award for Best Documentary, Student Academy Awards, 2008
David L. Wolper Award, International Documentary Association, 2008
Winner, Best Documentary, Angelus Student Film Festival, 2008
Cinema for Peace Award, Berlin, Germany 2008
Winner, Best in Show, Grand Rapids Film Festival, 2008
Winner, Fuiggi Family Film Festival, Italy, 2009
Winner, Best Documentary, National Geographic All Roads Film Festival, 2008
Crystal Heart Award, Heartland Film Festival, 20018
Official Selection, Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival
Official Selection, Seattle Human Rights Film Festival, Amnesty International
Official Selection, LA Femme Film Festival
Official Selection, Kansas International Film Festival
CREDITS
Director and Producer: Laura Waters Hinson
Narrated by: Mia Farrow
Cinematographer: Kasey Kirby
Editor: Laura Waters Hinson
Assistant Producer, Translator: Emmanuel Kwizera
Additional Cinematography: Patrick Meade Jones
Associate Producer: Thomas Hinson
Production Assistant: Jeannie Hall Hagopian
Director of Outreach: Genevieve Embler