After years of walking
© Sarah Vanagt

KIGALI - After the genocide of 1994, the Rwandan government temporarily suspended history from the school curriculum. The characters in After Years of Walking - children, teachers, genocide killers, students and historians - all find themselves in an uncertain zone between the old history and a new one.

The filmmaker found a historical film made in 1959 by Belgian missionaries. She took this film back to Rwanda in 2002 as an entry point into Rwanda's search for history.

Supported
€2,700 allocated on 25/05/2002
ID:
FPD/2002/128
Grant:
Pascal Decroos Fund

Themes

Links

After Years of Walking - Balthasar.be

Publication

DOCUMENTARY

  • 37 min. / Beta SP (shooting format: DV-cam) / 2003
    French and Kinyarwanda spoken, with English subtitle
    Director/producer: Sarah Vanagt
    Cinematographer: Annemarie Lean-Vercoe
    Sound recordist: Pauline Simonet
    Editor: Sarah Metcalfe
    Sound design: Robert Prynne
    Music: Tradi-musiciens (Rwanda)

EXPO & SCREENING

  • Cross-examinations #3, These and Other Works, group exhibition, Extra City, Antwerp, 2012
  • Transat Vidéo, Caen 2011
  • Festival International de films de femmes de Créteil, Paris 2010
  • Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive, London 2008
  • Smart Project Space, Amsterdam 2008
  • IDFA International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2004
  • Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2004
  • Film Festival Clairmont-Ferrand (African Perspective) 2004
  • Oxdox International Documentary Festival Oxford 2004
  • Festival of European Film Schools Bologna 2004
  • Human Rights Watch Film Festival London 2004
  • One World 2004 - Human Rights Documentary Festival Prague 2004
  • Amnesty International Film Festival USA - West Hollywood 2004

COUNTRIES

  • Rwanda

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