Notebooks of Memory

This third film in the series focuses on tribunals of local citizen-judges weighing survivor accounts of the massacres against the testimony of perpetrators. (2009)

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On a lush green Rwandan hillside, more than a decade after the 1994 genocide to wipe out the Tutsi population, a small rural community gathers on the grass over and over again for the Gacaca (ga-CHA-cha) trials, a unique experiment in justice meant to bring unity back to this nation. In The Notebooks of Memory award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion spends four years following the process, as a tribunal of local citizen-judges weighs survivor accounts of the massacres against the testimony of perpretrators who barter confessions for reduced prison sentences.

Film Credits:

  • Produced & Directed by Anne Aghion
  • Edited by Nadia Ben Rachid
  • Camera by James Kakwerere, Linette Frewin
  • Sound Recording by Richard Fleming
  • Sound Editing by Roland Duboué
  • Sound Mix by Nathalie Vidal