REVIEW: ‘Ben’lmana’ and the impossibility of forgiveness

CANNES: “Ben’Imana” created history when it became the first film by a Rwandan filmmaker to premiere within the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, which closed on May 23. Directed by Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo in her feature debut, the film focuses on the memories and emotional fractures that continue to survive decades after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group. Set in 2012 during the Gacaca trials — established to confront crimes committed during the genocide — the film follows women haunted by memories that resist the language of forgiveness.

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