Monday, Nov. 30 @ 8:30PM- Cowin (TC)

Tuesday, Dec. 1 @ 4:00PM - Anthology

KIGALI, IMAGES AGAINST A MASSACRE /
KIGALI, IMAGES CONTRE UN MASSACRE

US PREMIERE

In April 1994, Jean-Christophe Klotz was a journalist and film reporter working in Rwanda. He was there to film images meant to mobilize the public by showing "anti-massacre" images, as the massacres spread around the country and notably in the capital of Kigali. The public saw these images. But the public did not react. Do images really have the power to change things? What the film acknowledges is uncompromising: even though overwhelming, pictures can only change things if they are acknowledged by those who see them. Despite being obvious, the images of the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide, or even of the massacres that were perpetrated years before it started, did not trigger the mobilization that could have changed the course of events. Why? A deep and hunting reflection of a journalist going back to the place were it all took place, talking to victims, perpetrators, politicians and all those involved and questioning his role, as a journalist and the power of images. by Jean-Christophe Klotz, 2006, 110mins, historical documentary in French with English subtitles.