New film highlights inspiring Quaker work in Rwanda

21 Oct 2009 | by

Film previewed at Friends House

A still from the film. | Photo: Image courtesy of Josiah Films.

Staff at Friends House in London last week previewed ICYIZERE:hope, a moving and provocative documentary by Patrick Mureithi about a Rwandan Quaker initiative that brings together survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 genocide. The film, still a work in progress, features a three-day workshop entitled Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities. It offers an intimate glimpse into a raw, wrenching and ultimately inspiring struggle to come to grips with the painful legacy of genocide. Slowly and subtly, a friendship is forged between a perpetrator who speaks candidly to the camera about the traumatic effects of killing, and a genocide widow who weeps about her feelings of guilt over her husband’s death:

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