100 Days (2001 film)

2001 film by Nick Hughes June 2016 June 2026 100 Days Nick Hughes Nick HughesEric Kabera Nick Hughes Cécile KayirebwaSteve ParrSharon Rose Nick Hughes Kavila Matu y 2001 2 1 US 2001 9 13 TIFF 100 minutes United Kingdom, Rwanda English 100 Days is a 2001 British-Rwandan drama film directed by Nick Hughes and produced by Hughes and Rwanda filmmaker Eric Kabera. It is about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Synopsis The film is a dramatisation of events that happened during the 1994 genocide against Tutsi people in Rwanda. It focuses on the life of a young, refugee Tutsi girl, Josette, and her attempts to find safety while the genocide is taking place. She enters a church that is purportedly a sanctuary protected by UN forces, but the church's Hutu priest agrees to spare her life only in exchange for being raped.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/welcome-to-hillywood-how-rwandas-film-industry-emerged-from-genocides-shadow-463541.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/welcome-to-hillywood-how-rwandas-film-industry-emerged-from-genocides-shadow-463541.html 1 May 2022 live Welcome to Hillywood: how Rwanda's film industry emerged from genocide's shadow The Independent Bloomfield Steve 30 August 2007 Cast Eric Bridges Twahirwa Cleophas Kabasita Davis Kagenza Mazimpaka Kennedy Davis Kwizera David Mulwa Didier Ndengeyintwali Denis Nsanzamahoro Justin Rusandazangabo Production The film was the first feature film made about the 1994 Rwandan genocide.Kabera, Eric African Film Festival, Inc. https://africanfilmny.org/directors/eric-kabera/ 15 June 2025Eric Kabera (Kwetu Film Institute) Changing the Story University of Leeds https://www.changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/cesar-kwetu/ 15 June 2025 It employed no professional actors; rather the filmmakers used actual Tutsi and Hutu survivors to act out the script, and was shot on location at the actual scenes where acts of genocide occurred. http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2002/11/22/08 On The Media: Transcript of " "100 Days in Rwanda" 22 November 2002 onthemedia.org 2009-02-28 Gladstone Brooke https://web.archive.org/web/20090109015317/http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2002/11/22/08 9 January 2009 dead dmy-all The title of the film is a direct reference to the length of time that passed from the beginning of the genocide on 6 April until it ended in mid-July 1994. Release The film was released in 2001, four years after filming. References External links 100 Days Official Eric Kabera website Category:British drama films Category:2001 drama films Category:English-language Rwandan films Category:Films about the Rwandan genocide Category:2001 English-language films Category:Rwandan drama films Category:2001 British films Category:English-language drama films