Nos cœurs sont vos tombes
Our Hearts are Your Tombs
A film about memory, justice, passing time and a difficult reconciliation. Unable to love each other, the survivors and oppressors must learn how to live together. Learn how to forgive. But how do you forgive someone who doesn’t want to ask for forgiveness. The passing time: ten years ago in April 1994, the year of the genocide that claimed a million lives in Rwanda. Justice was handed down in Brussels during the spring of 2001. Belgium had adopted a new law, the doctrine of “universal jurisdiction”. It allows the Belgian courts to pursue and punish crimes against humanity committed by Belgians abroad or by suspects living in Belgium. There was also the justice handed down in Rwanda. On August 1, 2003, there were still 80,000 suspects in Rwandan prisons awaiting trial. The Rwandan state was sorely lacking the means and legal personnel. The task was enormous and the crimes committed of extreme gravity. The state had recourse to traditional justice, the gacaca: justice handed down on the grass by simple citizens. The memory is that which haunts the mutilated bodies and minds of survivors who still live in fear. It is the memory of those who accept to forgive but not to forget. The film’s title comes from a poem by Agnes Rubayiza.
Belgium - 2004 - 52 mn - DV Cam - Colour
Director
Roger Beeckmans
Writer
Roger Beeckmans
Camera
Roger Beeckmans
Sound
Alain Steenhoudt
Editing
Greta Thijs
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Production
Image Création.com,
Chaussée de Louvain 30,
1210 Bruxelles, Belgique
Tél : +32 2 218 2816
Fax : +32 2 218 3803
E-mail : imagemartine@skynet.be
Co-Production
CBA - Centre Bruxellois de l'Audiovisuel, Radiotélévision belge de la communauté française
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Sales
CBA - Centre Bruxellois de l'Audiovisuel,
19 F, avenue des Arts,
1000 Bruxelles, Belgique
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Fax : +32 2 227 2239
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