The film launched Munyaneza’s career as a filmmaker. It focuses on the compassionate actions he witnessed when his Hutu neighbours saved him and his Tutsi sisters from the mass killings that swept the country.
The film is based on his personal experience of the Burundian genocide of 1993, which took place after the assassination of the country’s first democratically elected Hutu president Ndadye Melchoir. His first documentary - Histoire d’une haine manquée - was released in 2010 and has received awards from international and African festivals. He now is the man behind the camera and has released three documentaries since 2010, two of which have drawn the ire of the Burundian government and forced Munyaneza into exile. Munyaneza became fascinated in the process of filmmaking at a young age, despite the lack of cinematic resources in Burundi.
“If you want to make films in Burundi, you either self-censor and you remain in the country or if you don’t, you have to flee the country,” Eddy Munyaneza, a Burundian documentary filmmaker, told Index on Censorship.
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