Horizons / Ben’Imana / Rwanda, Gabon, France, Norway, Ivory Coast 2026
Rwanda, 2012. Nearly twenty years after the genocide of the country’s Tutsi population, community tribunals are still being organized with the goal of healing social divisions and fostering reconciliation. Vénéranda, a survivor of the genocide, moderates a dialogue between victims and the families of perpetrators. But when she learns that her daughter is pregnant, she must face the shadows of her own past. The first Rwandan film to be screened at Cannes lays bare a country that seems to be healing on the surface but continues to bleed within. How difficult is forgiveness? How to find justice and inner peace? This social but also intimate intergenerational drama is defined by extraordinarily strong female characters who rightly sense that sorrow and hope sometimes follow the same path.
Vojtěch Kočárník
102 min / Color, DCP
Director Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo
/ Screenplay Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo, Delphine Agut
/ Dir. of Photography Mostafa El Kashef
/ Sound Eugène Safali
/ Editor Nadia Ben Rachid
/ Art Director Ricardo Sankara
/ Producer Samantha Biffot
/ Production Ejo Cine Ltd, Ogweli Productions
/ Coproduction Princess M Productions, Ejo Cine Ltd, Duo Film, Les Films du Bilboquet
/ Cast Clémentine U. Nyirinkindi, Kesia Kelly Nishimwe, Arivere Kagoyire, Isabelle Kabano, Antoinette Uwamahoro, Léocadie Uwabeza, Aime Valens Tuyisenge
/ Sales mk2 Films
/ Distributor Artcam Films
Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo. Filmography: Lyiza (2011, short), A Place For Me (2016, short), Icyasha (2018, short), Ben'Imana (2026).
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