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My neighbor My Killer northless (Norteado)
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In 2001, years after the killing fields had been plowed under, the
MEXICO
Drawn to the north, a young farmer from Oaxaca in southern Mexico
Director: Anne Aghion Rwandan government initiated a program of open-air trials to try to Director: Rigoberto Perezcano tries repeatedly to cross the border into the United States. Andrés is a
Producer: Anne Aghion foster reconciliation between the Tutsis, over half a million of whom Producer: Edgar San Juan
gentle soul who has given himself up to his dream. When he is pushed
Cinematographers: James Kakwerere,
were slaughtered during the ethnic cleansing of 1994, and the majority
Screenwriters: Rigoberto Perezcano,
back to Tijuana, he is taken in by two women, Cata and Ela, who
Linette Frewin, Claire Bailly du Bois, Hutus. More than 11,000 Gacaca courts were set up to deliver com- Edgar San Juan are doing their own endless waiting on the line that divides the two
Mathieu Hagnery
munity justice in the course of only a few months, bringing some of the Cinematographer: Alejandro Cantú countries. After leaving them to go north, their husbands have not
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Editor: Nadia Ben Rachid
130,000 confessed committers of genocide home from jail to hearings
Editor: Miguel Sverdfinger
only never returned but never even tried to contact them again. It’s as
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il 2009 / color / 80 min.
presided over by citizen judges. Amid a peaceful African landscape, My
Cast: Harold Torres, Alicia Laguna,
though their lives are being lived elsewhere; all three are are caught
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Neighbor My Killer captures a nation’s profoundly emotional struggle to Sonia Couoh, Luis Cárdenas up in a cycle of forging and reforging bonds, of trying to form families
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process its collective memories of that terrible violence.
2009 / color / 93 min.
that will bend but not break. As for Andrés, his new family finally
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helps him carry out a getaway whose surrealistic aspects provide both
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Anne Aghion graduated from Columbia Already on the ground in Rwanda at the time, filmmaker Anne Aghion
a light-hearted lift and an extra poignancy.
University with a degree in Arab
began chronicling the drama of these trials in the village of Gafumba.
riGoBErTo PErEzCano
language and literature. She first
But as the painful work of the courts stretched longer and longer, what Rigoberto Perezcano was born Straightforward camerawork makes room for a choreography of the
worked for The New York Times and
Aghion thought would be a two-year project stretched into a decade
in Zaachila, Oaxaca, Mexico. His
simplest movements, as the nuances of Andrés’s everyday existence
the International Herald Tribune in
background lies in documentaries,
Paris before making films. In 2005, she
of filmmaking that produced three television documentaries – and this contrast with his pulsing drive to leave. Marking director Rigoberto
including the award-winning XV
received a Guggenheim Fellowship and
feature film, which marks the fifteenth anniversary of the massacre. She
en Zaachila. In 2001 Perezcano was
Perezcano’s feature debut, Northless swept the 14 Films in Progress
won an Emmy for In Rwanda We Say … and her crew became intimately involved in the process; seen initially by
awarded the Rockefeller-MacArthur
competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival in 2008 – a showcase of
The Family That Does Not Speak Dies.
some as a threat, by others as a shield, they ultimately served to keep Ford Scholarship for screenwriting. six Latin American films in the final stages of postproduction – thereby
the two sides in the same room. In a tense standoff that was clearly a
While still in progress, his first feature,
winning grants that allowed it to be finished.
Filmography
step into the future, the central question finally became: how do we
Northless, won numerous awards at
Ice People (2008)
the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Sponsored by:
In Rwanda We Say … The Family That
speak the truth about the past?
Does Not Speak Dies (2004)
Gacaca, Living Together Again
The film is dedicated to historian Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges, author
in Rwanda? (2002)
of Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, which is consid-
The Floor Mover to Him:
ered the most comprehensive account of the genocide; Des Forges died
a Picture of Managua (1996)
in on Feb. 12, 2009, in an airplane crash in Buffalo, New York. Aghion’s
shorter documentaries on Rwanda, screened in recent years for televi-
sion, won her both an Emmy and a Fellini Medal from UNESCO (the
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization).
Sponsored by:
WOMEN + FilM
FOUNDiNg MEMbERS
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In cooperation with: Centro humanitario
In cooperation with: Colorado Coalition for genocide Awareness
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