Munyurangabo

Munyurangabo is a 2007 film directed by Lee Isaac Chung. Filmed entirely in Rwanda with local actors, it is the first narrative feature film in the Kinyarwanda language. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival onMay and won the Grand Prize at the 2007 AFI Fest American critic Roger Ebert calls it in every frame a beautiful and powerful film a masterpiece.

According to The New York Times, prior to the making of the film, director Lee Isaac Chungs wife Valerie, an art therapist, had traveled to Rwanda as a volunteer to work with those affected by the 1994 genocide. At her urging, Chung accompanied her to Rwanda and volunteered to teach a filmmaking class at a relief base in Kigali in the summer of 2006. Sensing an opportunity to present the contemporary reality of Rwanda and to provide his students with practical film training, Chung arrived with a ninepage outline which he had written with the help of old friend and the films eventual coproducer and cowriter Samuel Gray Anderson. Chung shot Munyurangabo overdays, working with a team of nonprofessional actors Chung found through local orphanages and his students as crew members.Munyurangabo has received highly positive reviews from critics. The film received an 95 approval rating from critics on aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes and an average rating of 7.710, based onreviews. ........

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