The Rwandan genocide is more than a backdrop for the ensemble drama “Kinyarwanda.” It puts a face on the victims and their oppressors with an earnest desire to work though the country’s demons — if ...
In a Rwandan village, teens gather at a house party. Lovely Jean (Zaninka Hadidja), her handsome boyfriend and friends dance and sing along to (of all things) Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton’s schmaltzy ...
Millions of Rwandans and other Kinyarwanda speakers have struggled to understand why changes were recently introduced in the language's orthography. The new instructions on how to write Kinyarwanda ...
Youth have been urged to actively preserve Kinyarwanda and promote its use in daily life as part of efforts to strengthen Rwanda's identity and cultural heritage.The call was made during the sixth ...
The 2011 film will debut digitally via SnagFilms partners such as Comcast Xfinity, FiOS, DIRECTV, iTunes, Amazon and VUDU. By Jay A. Fernandez SnagFilms has acquired exclusive digital rights to ...
Alrick Brown’s 2011 Sundance World Cinema Audience Award Winner “Kinyarwanda” is a complex portrait of love, loss and forgiveness during the Rwandan genocide. The film is named for one of the many ...
Kinyarwanda feature film has won the World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic. The film is inspired by true stories of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, when the mosques turned into places of refuge, ...
Alrick Brown’s feature directing debut, “Kinyarwanda,” is like an interwoven collection of short stories; characters who are the focus of one story pop up in the background of another, creating a ...