My Neighbor My Killer: Documentary Film on Gacaca Justice in Rwanda

Award-winning film series on Gacaca justice in Rwanda

My Neighbor My Killer is the culmination of ten years of documenting Gacaca justice in Rwanda. This feature length documentary film spans the trilogy. (80', 2009)

Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda?
Follow the first steps in one of the world’s boldest experiments in reconciliation. Unesco Felini Prize winner. (55', 2002)

In Rwanda we say...The family that does not speak dies
The second film looks at the impact of the return of a prisoner to his community before his trial. Emmy Award-winner. (54', 2004)

The Notebooks of Memory
The third film focuses on tribunals of local citizen-judges weighing survivor accounts of the massacres against the testimony of perpetrators. (53', 2009)

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Gacaca (Ga-CHA-cha), which literally means "justice on the grass", is a form of citizen-based justice which Rwandans decided to put into place in an attempt to deal with the crimes of the 1994 genocide. Filming for over a decade in a tiny rural hamlet, director Anne Aghion has charted the impact this experiment in transitional justice has had on survivors and perpetrators alike.

"Brilliant" — One of the Best Documentaries of 2009
—Jennifer Merin, About.com: Documentaries
“Deeply Moving”—Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
“Highly recommended”—Video Librarian
“Remarkable”—Lee Marshall, Screen International
“Excellent”—Peter Brunette, Hollywood Reporter
“Quietly devastating”—Kenneth Turan, LA Times
“An historic document of incalculable value, but also a superbly shot work of cinema”—Agence France Presse