Imbabazi : Le Pardon

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Screened as part of the official programmes of Chicago and Hamburg, this debut feature film by Joel Karekezi is a new, extended version of his successful short film The Pardon. It tells a bleak story: Manzi is freed at the end of his 15-year sentence for his part in the Rwandan genocide. His former best friend is determined that Manzi pay the full price for his crimes.

fiction
RW
2013 | 77 min. | Colour

Language : English | Kinyarwanda |
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Screenplay

Joel Karekezi

Cinematography

Jack Elliott

Editing

Veronique Doumbe

Music

Ioannis Kourtis

Sound

Matt Perry Thomas

Cast

Wilson Egessa

Joel Okuyo Atiku Prynce

Rehema Nanfuka

Brenda Ibarah

Producer

Veronique Doumbe

Casey Schroen

Joel Karekezi

Karekezi Film Production

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Joel Karekezi

2008 Diploma in film directing from Québec’s CinéCours

2009 Trained in screenwriting at Maisha Film Lab, Uganda

2009 The Pardon (first short, awarded at Amakula in Uganda and Silicon Valley African Film Festival in California)

2009 Les jeunes à la poursuite du travail (short)

2009 Survivor

2010 Ntukazime Nararokotse

2013 Invitation at La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde in Cannes

2018 The Mercy of the Jungle (Grand Prix, Fespaco 2019)

Nouveau territoire : Rwanda

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