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Duhozanye

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Duhozanye
Directed byKaroline Frogner
Country of originNorway
Original release
Release2011 (2011)

Duhozanye: A Rwandan Village of Widows is a feature Norwegian documentary film for television from 2011 by director Karoline Frogner.[1]

Norway's previous minister of justice, Knut Storberget, referred to Duhozanye in his latest book: "a film about a community of widows in Rwanda, an insightful and intense depiction of these widows."[2]

Summary

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The Kinyarwanda word duhozanye means "let us console one another".[3] Frogner's film documents the development of the Duhozanye Association founded by Daphrose Mukarutamu, a Tutsi who lost her husband and nine of her eleven children to the Rwandan genocide. The community was at first a group of neighbours who buried the dead and cared for twenty orphans, but grew to a network of some 4000 widows, both Hutus and Tutsis, who cared for each other and for the orphans of the genocide, running courses, starting businesses and participating in national reconciliation.[1][4]

Screenings

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  • Shown on Norwegian public broadcasting channel, NRK2, 24 May 2011 [5]
  • Memorium Nürnberger Prozesse, Cineroom, Bärenschanzstr. 72, 90429 Nürnberg, 10 April 2014
  • The House of Literature Oslo, April 2014

References

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  1. ^ a b Duhozanye: A Rwandan Village of Widows: A film by Karoline Frogner. Women Make Movies. Accessed June 2014.
  2. ^ Storberget K. (2012) Det er dine øyne jeg ser, om forbrytelse straff og forsoning
  3. ^ Madeleine Kuhns (10 April 2014). At "Duhozanye" survivors ask for dialogue on aging in post-genocide Rwanda Archived 14 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine. MediaGlobal News. Accessed June 2014.
  4. ^ Gender Perspectives On International Development Archived 9 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Resource Bulletin. ed. PhD. Ferguson, Anne. Volume 27: Number 3. (2013: Center for Gender in Global Context).
  5. ^ The broadcasting information on NRK's Norwegian website. NRK. Accessed June 2014.
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