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Synopsis. The film tells three stories which are separate and at times connected. In the first one, the young filmmaker Balthazar is looking for money in Kigali to produce his debut film, Le cycle du cafard, but the government refuses to finance a film based on the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda. In the second, Balthazar's film takes shape ...
- Scarab Studio Films
- Scarab Studio, POV Productions
- Antonio Rui Ribeiro
- Kivu Ruhorahoza
Jan 18, 2012 · In “Grey Matter” Kivu Ruhorahoza gathers recollections of the months of massacres in Rwanda and the effects of the bloodshed on those who survived.
- Kivu Ruhorahoza
Grey Matter. Kivu Ruhorahoza is a Rwandese film director, writer and producer. He is internationally known for his feature film Grey Matter which won the Jury Special Mention for Best Emerging Filmmaker at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival and the Ecumenical Jury special mention at the 2011 Warsaw Film Festival. He also won the Grand Prize of the ...
- Rwandese
- Grey Matter
Grey Matter - Harvard Film Archive. (Matière Grise) Director in Person. $15 Special Event Tickets. Directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza. With Ramadhan Bizimana, Tamim Hakizimana, Kennedy Jones Mazimpaka. Rwanda, 2011, DCP, color, 110 min. Kinyarwanda and French with English subtitles. DCP source: Filmmaker.
One question haunts Kivu Ruhorahoza's Grey Matter: Can film as a medium communicate the unthinkable and unknowable consequences of mass tragedy? When you're dealing with an event as devastating and massive as the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, where over 800,000 people were killed in a matter of months, any type of definitive answer undoubtedly ...
Directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza, Rwanda, 2011. Set in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, this radiantly self-referential film-within-a-film describes the vision and trials of a determined filmmaker named Balthazar, as he tries to produce his first feature, The Cycle of the Cockroach.
- 1575
- The Global Film Initiative
