A journalist films his own moral collapse in genocide's aftermath — and the camera keeps rolling.
Paris, April 1994. Young freelance journalist Antoine Rives is making a report on Westerners who have been repatriated from Rwanda, fleeing the massacres. He meets Clément, a student of Hutu origin whose Tutsi fiancée Alice hasn’t been able to leave Rwanda. Antoine convinces Clément to go back with him to look for Alice, and to let him film the journey. Their pact soon becomes untenable as they find themselves thrown into chaos. This is a journey through horror during which a young man’s First World illusions are stripped away as he wakes up to human tragedy.
Direction
Klotz's documentary background makes fiction feel illegally real.
Acting
Lespert's unraveling — privilege curdling into panic.
Director
Jean-Christophe Klotz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released 16 years after the genocide, when France's complicity was still barely discussed in cinema.
The 'found footage' format isn't gimmick — it mirrors how Western audiences consumed Rwandan suffering through news clips.
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