Live From Cannes: My Neighbor My Killer

by Ashley Wren Collins
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/festivals/article/cannes_anne_aghion_altiplano_20090519/
“I would say ‘Don’t do it, you’re crazy!,’” says Anne Aghion, award-winning documentary moviemaker whose film Ice People, the story of the internal and external journeys of scientists living in Antarctica, is currently playing in theaters in the United States while her other film, My Neighbor My Killer, an intimate portrait of the impact of the 1994 Rwandan genocide on both its victims and perpetrators, and the subsequent creation of Gacaca, community courts set up for the murderers to confess their crimes in exchange for reduced sentences and the opportunity to return to their community and co-exist again among the family and neighbors they once terrorized, is screening as an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival.