Rwanda: from Ashes to Miracle
Synopsis
Through the eyes of Sonia Rolland, a first-person documentary about the actress' country of birth: Rwanda. This small Central African country, sadly famous for having been the territory of one of the most extensive genocides in history, in twenty years has become 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 its leaders' objective is to make Rwanda the Singapore of Africa. Therefore, a question arises, how is this possible? How did Rwanda go from genocidal horror to being the good pupil of the black continent? What policy has been pursued to achieve this result? Sonia Rolland interviews the different actors and observers of this new Rwanda: ministers, journalists, farmers, foreign experts. This documentary finally brings a fresh look at this country that has achieved a surprising reconstruction.
Credits
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Bagan Films
- Co-production : So Mad Productions
- Foreign production company : Animal's Prod
- Film exports/foreign sales : Next Film Distribution
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producers : Patrick Hernandez, Lionel Gonzalez
- Screenwriters : Sonia Rolland, Jean-Christophe Siriac
- Directors of Photography : Patrick Hernandez, Léo Schrepel, Julien Guillery
- Music Composer : Emmanuel D'Orlando
- Editors : Nathalie Triniac, Roman Deroubaix
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Christophe Siriac
- Foreign producer : Mélanie Couraud
- Voice : Juliette Cardinski, Jean Lespert, Yaniss Lespert, Charles Morel, Norman Delauné, Slimane Yefsah, Éric Kara, Hadrien Bal
- Co-producers : Sonia Rolland, Madjissem Beringaye
- Sound Editor : Gabriel Mathé
- Grader : Caroline Hassenfratz
- Sound Mixer : Sylvain François
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : Education, Society, Justice
- Production language : French, English, Kinyarwanda
- Coproducer countries : France, Belgium
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Belgium)
- Production year : 2014
- Runtime : 53 min 41 seconds
- Visa number : 145.449
- Visa issue date : 08/11/2016
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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Festivals
- Cinéma d’Alès (France, 2015)
- Les Médiatiques (Orléans, France, 2015)
- Vues d’Afrique (Montreal, Canada, 2015)
- Terra Festival (Guadeloupe, France, 2015)
- Deauville Green Awards (France, 2015)
- Lumières d’Afrique – Audience Award (France, 2015)
- Africlap (Toulouse, France, 2016)
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