Completed - FRENCH - First film - 100 minutes
Matière Grise
Year of production : 2011 Director(s) : Kivu RUHORAHOZA Writer(s) : Kivu RUHORAHOZA Producer(s) : Dominic ALLEN (Camera Club), Kivu RUHORAHOZA
Set in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, this radiantly self-referential film-within-a-film describes the vision and trials of a determined filmmaker named Balthazar, as he tries to produce his first feature, The Cycle of the Cockroach. The trenchant drama, about a brother and sister dealing with the aftermath of genocide, finds no support from agencies only interested in funding upbeat policy-friendly films. As Balthazar borrows recklessly from a loan shark, the Cycle plays out on the screen, subtly measuring the horror and systematic madness of events hardly unique to Rwanda, while offering bracing insight into the nature of political violence.
Country(ies) : RWANDA, AUSTRALIA Start of shooting : May, 2010