Somewhere between 500,000 and 800,000 people, mostly Tutsi, died during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Faced with numbers like these, it can be difficult to understand it in human terms. Jo Ingabire Moys, who escaped the conflict as a child but lost half her family, condenses aspects of what happened into this Oscar-qualifying short film and shows viewers around the world that genocide isn’t something remote and incomprehensible, but something which can happen to any society is hatred is allowed to build within it.
The title character, Bazigaga (Eliane Umuhire), is a traditional healer, a woman on who many members of her local community privately depend but who is publicly shunned as a result of the actions of Christian pastor Karembe (Ery Nzaramba), who has branded her a witch. This has made her life very difficult, but it has also given her a certain power. When Karembe and his young daughter...
The title character, Bazigaga (Eliane Umuhire), is a traditional healer, a woman on who many members of her local community privately depend but who is publicly shunned as a result of the actions of Christian pastor Karembe (Ery Nzaramba), who has branded her a witch. This has made her life very difficult, but it has also given her a certain power. When Karembe and his young daughter...
- 12/4/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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