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)

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