Rwanda: from chaos to miracle
Sortie en France en 2016
Genre : Documentaire, Voyage & Société
Duration : 2 versions, 53min et 60min
Directors : Sonia Rolland
Script : Sonia Rolland, Jean-Christophe Siriac
Diffusion : France O / TV5 Monde
Co-producer : Bagan Films (France), Somad Productions (France), Animal’s Productions (Belgique)
Funding: Région Île de France
Synopsis : Through the eyes of Sonia Rolland, a first-person documentary on the country of birth of the actress: Rwanda. This small country in Central Africa, sadly famous for having been the site of one of the most important genocides in history, has become in twenty years one of the hopes of the African continent. Indeed, all the development indices (economy, health, education) are clearly progressing, the country is unified and peaceful and the objective of the leaders is to make Rwanda the Singapore of Africa. So the question arises, how is this possible? How did Rwanda go from genocidal horror to the good student of the black continent? What policy was implemented to achieve this result? Sonia Rolland will interview the various actors and observers of this “new Rwanda”: ministers, journalists, farmers, foreign experts. Finally, this documentary takes a fresh look at this country, which has managed a surprising reconstruction.
PRIX DU PUBLIC – Festival Lumières d’Afrique (France, 2015)
Alès Cinema Festival (France, 2015)
Media Festival (Orleans, France, 2015)
Festival Vues d'Afrique (Montreal, Canada, 2015)
Terra Festival (Guadeloupe, France, 2015)
Deauville Green Awards (France, 2015)
Africlap Festival (Toulouse, France, 2016)