Mazimpaka Kennedy

A young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man fall in love amid chaos; a soldier struggles to foster a greater good while absent from her family; and a priest grapples with his faith in the face of unspeakable horror.

We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague whose family has been murdered, and she takes her to Poland. But the woman returns to Rwanda to visit the graves of her loved ones. The director originally worked on the movie with her husband Krzysztof Krauze (My Nikifor – Crystal Globe, KVIFF 2005), but after his death in 2014 she eventually finished this challenging picture alone.

Kwame, an African man, wants to travel outside of his compound, but he must first get a visa from a Caucasian gatekeeper who controls movements in-and-out of the house. It is only with the help of a Caucasian girlfriend that he succeeds.

"Africa United" raconte l’histoire extraordinaire de trois enfants rwandais qui tentent de réaliser le rêve de leur vie : assister à la cérémonie d’ouverture de la Coupe du Monde de Football 2010 à Johannesburg. Mais les problèmes commencent quand Fabrice, Dudu et Béatrice montent dans le mauvais bus et se retrouvent au Congo. Sans papiers, sans argent, ils sont amenés dans un camp d’enfants réfugiés. Mais avec une incroyable ingéniosité, un peu de culot et une affiche de la Coupe du Monde comme carte, nos héros s’échappent du camp et repartent à la poursuite de leur rêve, en embarquant avec eux une «dream team» d’enfants réfugiés qui les aideront à traverser une série d’aventures palpitantes. Au cours de ce périple de 5000 km à travers sept pays, le film fait découvrir une Afrique méconnue.

The film centers on a pair of young lovers; Bapiste is more than ready to have sex with his girlfriend Josette, but she refuses, arguing that when they are married they can have all the sex they would like. Meanwhile, powerful Hutu leaders have had enough of Tutsi rebels and call on all Hutus to kill their Tutsi neighbors. As chaos breaks out, the Tutsis flee and the lovers are separated. Josette and her family find solace in a Catholic church run by a sadistic priest. The Catholic Church, the state, and the French army look the other way as bloodshed ensues. Josette is taken as a "wife" by the priest and repeatedly raped. When the Belgian army sent in to protect the church is called away on an emergency, the Hutus attack and massacre hundreds of women and children. Josette miraculously survives, but she is only a husk of the woman that she was. As the Tutsis regroup, they exact terrible revenge.

A young Congolese woman, forced to work in an illegal mineral mine, escapes her captors. She finds a new life for herself after joining a renowned all-women boxing club in the border city of Goma.