"We're still in Africa, right?" Film Movement has debuted an official US trailer for a film from Congo titled The Mercy of the Jungle, from Rwandan filmmaker Joël Karekezi. This initially premiered back in 2018 at the Toronto FIlm Festival, and is finally getting a US release this year. It also played at the 2019 Seattle Film Festival. The Mercy of the Jungle is a road movie that deals with wars in Congo through the eyes of two lost soldiers in the jungle by showcasing their struggle, weakness and hope. It tells the story of two Rwandan soldiers separated from their military unit at the beginning of the Second Congo War and their struggle to survive in a hostile jungle environment amidst intense armed conflict. Starring Marc Zinga and Stéphane Bak, with Ibrahim Ahmed "Pino", Nirere Shanel, Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga, and Michael Wawuyo. This looks like an impressively immersive film about the...
- 5/20/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Claimed to be Rwanda’s first feature narrative film, the work of director Kivu Ruhorahoza is by turns puzzling, inscrutable, protracted and tedious. It is easy to pan the film as a work so intensely mired in the desire to communicate metaphors and images personal (and perhaps understandable) only to Mr. Ruhorahoza. Yet I can’t dismiss Grey Matter completely – it is an ambitious film, if only for the breadth of ideas that I was able to puzzle out and a beautifully shot and acted one. For the life of me though, I couldn’t tell you precisely what its about, beyond the already murky surface plotting.
We open with Balthazar (Hervé Kimenyi), a young black Rwandan filmmaker and habitual smoker, recounting the troubles of his production in front of a camera. It seems that his film, The Cycle of the Cockroach, is unable to secure...
Claimed to be Rwanda’s first feature narrative film, the work of director Kivu Ruhorahoza is by turns puzzling, inscrutable, protracted and tedious. It is easy to pan the film as a work so intensely mired in the desire to communicate metaphors and images personal (and perhaps understandable) only to Mr. Ruhorahoza. Yet I can’t dismiss Grey Matter completely – it is an ambitious film, if only for the breadth of ideas that I was able to puzzle out and a beautifully shot and acted one. For the life of me though, I couldn’t tell you precisely what its about, beyond the already murky surface plotting.
We open with Balthazar (Hervé Kimenyi), a young black Rwandan filmmaker and habitual smoker, recounting the troubles of his production in front of a camera. It seems that his film, The Cycle of the Cockroach, is unable to secure...
- 4/28/2011
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- Obsessed with Film
Trailer for a film called The Day God Walked Away which will make its stateside debut at the San Francisco International Film Festival in May, after screenings all over Europe and in Canada.
The story goes… this lushly photographed film opens on an idyll of children, white and black, playing by a forest waterfall. But paradise swiftly turns to hell—more precisely, Rwanda, 1994—as screams signal the arrival of genocide. Jacqueline, a Tutsi mother of two of the children, works for a Belgian family in Kigali. The family flees the machete-bearing Hutu thugs, but they can’t protect Jacqueline—they leave her to hide in the attic while looters strip the house bare.
Eventually, Jacqueline ventures out to search for her children and takes refuge in the tall grass near a pond, hiding from the voices that boast of raping and hacking up their victims. There, Jacqueline encounters a wounded...
The story goes… this lushly photographed film opens on an idyll of children, white and black, playing by a forest waterfall. But paradise swiftly turns to hell—more precisely, Rwanda, 1994—as screams signal the arrival of genocide. Jacqueline, a Tutsi mother of two of the children, works for a Belgian family in Kigali. The family flees the machete-bearing Hutu thugs, but they can’t protect Jacqueline—they leave her to hide in the attic while looters strip the house bare.
Eventually, Jacqueline ventures out to search for her children and takes refuge in the tall grass near a pond, hiding from the voices that boast of raping and hacking up their victims. There, Jacqueline encounters a wounded...
- 4/30/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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