KINYARWANDA Extended Trailer from Alrick Brown on Vimeo.

During the Rwandan genocide, when neighbors killed neighbors and friends betrayed friends, some crossed
lines of hatred to protect each other.

At the time of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the Mufti of Rwanda, the most respected Muslim leader in the
country, issued a fatwa forbidding Muslims from participating in the killing of the Tutsi. As the country became
a slaughterhouse, mosques became places of refuge where Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis came
together to protect each other. KINYARWANDA is based on true accounts from survivors who took refuge at
the Grand Mosque of Kigali and the madrassa of Nyanza. It recounts how the Imams opened the doors of the
mosques to give refuge to the Tutsi and those Hutu who refused to participate in the killing.

KINYARWANDA interweaves six different tales that together form one grand narrative that provides the most
complex and real depiction yet presented of human resilience and life during the genocide. With an
amalgamation of characters, we pay homage to many, using the voices of a few.

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