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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 fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hinson, Laura Waters (Director, Producer), Farrow, Mia, 1945- (Narrator)
Format: Video
Language:English
Kinyarwanda
Language Notes:In English and Kinyarwanda with English subtitles.
Published: [District of Columbia] : Image Bearer Films, 2008.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Rwandans.
Forgiveness > Rwanda.
Reconciliation > Social aspects > Rwanda.
Social change > Rwanda.
Social conflict > Rwanda.
Genocide > Rwanda > History > 20th century.
War victims > Rwanda > Biography.
Rwanda > Social conditions.
Rwanda > Ethnic relations.
Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994 > Atrocities.
Rwanda > Politics and government > 1994-
National characteristics, Rwandan.
Rwandais.
Pardon > Rwanda.
Réconciliation > Aspect social > Rwanda.
Victimes de guerre > Rwanda > Biographies.
Rwanda > Politique et gouvernement > 1994-
National characteristics, Rwandan
Atrocities
Ethnic relations
Forgiveness
Genocide
Politics and government
Rwandans
Social change
Social conditions
Social conflict
War victims
Rwanda
Since 1900
documentary film.
Biographies
Documentary films
Feature films
History
Nonfiction films
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
Description
Summary: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 thousand 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?
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed June 08, 2020).
Physical Description:1 online resource (54 minutes)
Playing Time:00:53:32
Awards:Won 2008 International Documentary Association Awards, David L. Wolper Student Best Documentary Award
Production Credits:Cinematography, Kasey Kirby, Laura Waters Hinson ; musical score, Lenny Williams, Chris Biondo ; translators, Emmanuel Kwizera, Emmanuel Mutangana.