SYNOPSIS
A group of young adults born during or just after the 1994 genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsi people gather to find the courage to break a powerful taboo. Rwanda is one of the few nations in the world providing specialist counselling for children conceived through rape, who number 10,000 across the country. Here, course leader Emilienne, a mother, therapist and genocide survivor, helps the group to imagine a future free from family secrets and societal stigma. In a circle of supportive peers, they tell their individual stories and face their struggles together, in the hope their participation will advocate for others facing similar trauma
ABOUT ORNELLA
“I escaped the Rwanda genocide as a baby. I returned to find many of my generation have buried their pain.” Learn more about filmmaker Ornella Mutoni here
The screening and Q&A will be facilitated by Community Mental Health professional Nzinga Mascall as part of Creativity & Wellbeing week.
