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Lyiza/ Smartness ( Rwanda 2011 )

Color: Fiction, color, 21’

Direction: Marie- Clementine DUSABEJAMBO

Screenplay: Marie- Clementine DUSABEJAMBO

Director of Photography: Jean- Luck HABYARIMANA

Sound: Jean- Bosco NSHIMIYIMANA

Music: Babrah Dusange, Betty Murungi, Trevor Gureckis, Bryan Senti, Jay Wadley

Editing: Richard MUGWANEZA

Cast: Barbara Umutesi, Rodrigue Cyuzuzo

Production: Almond Tree films

Synopsis

The past is always present in the life of Lyiza who has to live with the traumatic memory of her parents’ murder, during the genocide in Rwanda. When she recognizes in the father of her classmate, the person responsible for their murder, a great tension started. The harmony returns through the intervention of a teacher who takes the youngsters to the museum of the genocide, the place of memory, and guides Lyiza towards forgiveness.

Réalisateur

Born in Kigali-RWANDA 1987, Marie-Clementine DUSABEJAMBO, is an Engineer in Electronics and Telecommunication engineering. “LYIZA” is her first short movie.