RWANDA
Italy, 2018 - 91’
Direction: Riccardo Salvetti / Screenplay: Marco Cortesi, Mara Moschini, Riccardo Salvetti / Producer: Massimo Gardini, Marco Cortesi / Cast: Marco Cortesi, Mara Moschini, Aaron T. Maccarthy / Cinematography: Massimo Gardini / Music: Davide Caprelli / Set Designer: Nazario Di Tullio, Barbara De Monte / Editor: Matteo Santi / Producer Company: Horizon Srl, MC-Teatro Civile / Distributor: Horizon Srl
April 1994: the small republic of Central Africa is devastated by one of the most dramatic and systematic genocides in human history. Over 800,000 victims in 104 days.
25 years later an actor and an actress bring to the stage a true story coming from the Rwandan genocide on stage. The two actors find themselves living in the shoes of the African protagonists of whom they were preparing to tell the story. Now the actor is Augustin, a young Hutu worker, and the actress is Cecile, Tutsi elementary school teacher. Augustin does not want to kill anyone, but because Hutu is obliged to take part in the massacres.
Fate will bring Augustin and Cecile to meet.
Riccardo Salvetti director and filmmaker, graduated in film production at the "Cinema Television and New Media" school in Milan.
He loves to tell stories through images from social themes, with a narrative that sometimes acquires surreal and dreamlike tones. In his spare time he loves reading manga and exploring dirt roads on his mountain bike.
The film "Rwanda" is his first feature film.
