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CCA 5 Thursday 16th October
12.00-01.40 pm
Flowers of Rwanda
David Munoz
Spain | 2008 | 24 mins
Rwanda,
13 years after the genocide that took away the lives of more than 800,000
people. What is the current situation in the country, and what feelings
prevail in the hearts of the survivors? Can victims and killers live together
- or could it happen again? What is the importance of education in a society
which has lived through genocide? Can a film festival make a difference?
And who should act when such atrocities occur - do we, as individuals,
have any responsibility?
Lumo
Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt
Nelson Walker III
Louis Abelman (co-director)
Lynn True (codirector)
USA 2007 / 72 Mins
Lumo is a feature-length
documentary about a young Congolese woman on an uncertain path to recovery at
a unique hospital for rape survivors.
The agonies of war-torn Africa are deeply etched in the bodies of these women as, in Eastern Congo, vying militias, armies and bandits use rape as a weapon of terror.
Recently engaged to a young man from her village, 20 year-old Lumo Sinai couldn't wait to have children and start a family. But when she crossed paths with marauding soldiers who brutally attacked her, she was left with a fistula’ÄôˆÑˆÆ a condition that has rendered her incontinent and threatens her ability to give birth in the future. Rejected by her fiancÀܬ© and cast aside by her family, Lumo found her way to the one place that may save her: a hospital for rape survivors set on the border with Rwanda.
12.00-01.40 pm
Flowers of Rwanda
David Munoz
Spain | 2008 | 24 mins
Rwanda,
13 years after the genocide that took away the lives of more than 800,000
people. What is the current situation in the country, and what feelings
prevail in the hearts of the survivors? Can victims and killers live together
- or could it happen again? What is the importance of education in a society
which has lived through genocide? Can a film festival make a difference?
And who should act when such atrocities occur - do we, as individuals,
have any responsibility?Lumo
Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt
Nelson Walker III
Louis Abelman (co-director)
Lynn True (codirector)
USA 2007 / 72 Mins
Lumo is a feature-length
documentary about a young Congolese woman on an uncertain path to recovery at
a unique hospital for rape survivors.
The agonies of war-torn Africa are deeply etched in the bodies of these women as, in Eastern Congo, vying militias, armies and bandits use rape as a weapon of terror.
Recently engaged to a young man from her village, 20 year-old Lumo Sinai couldn't wait to have children and start a family. But when she crossed paths with marauding soldiers who brutally attacked her, she was left with a fistula’ÄôˆÑˆÆ a condition that has rendered her incontinent and threatens her ability to give birth in the future. Rejected by her fiancÀܬ© and cast aside by her family, Lumo found her way to the one place that may save her: a hospital for rape survivors set on the border with Rwanda.
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