Clementine Dusabejambo

Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo was born in Kigali in 1987Rwandan . She trained as an electrical and telecommunications engineer. Dusabejambo's short film Lyiza, 2011, Behind the Word, 2013, A Place for Myself, 2016, Icyasha / Etiquette, 2018. Quotes This means more open doors to us, internationally. You know, Sembène is the father of the African cinema, the film was given this award because it reflects his aspirations: African filmmakers telling African stories that awaken society. accepts my award as the overall winner, said Clementine Dusabejambo (The New Times, Thursday, July 21, 2016) The festival is not about film screening alone. There are also numerous events around the festival and ZIFF gives exposure, not only to films and filmmakers, but it also gives that exposure to different forms of art: music, dance, painting, photography. Clementine Dusabejambo said that, showing my short film and took away from the festival (The New Times, Thursday, July 21, 2016) We are three African co-productions and we hope to have at least 40% of the budget on our side, and on the other side, that it also comes from Europe. International co-production is important for distribution. We need our films not only to be seen in Africa, but also to be seen in Europe. The film is written, the budget remains to be completed, said Clementine Dusabejambo (rfi , April 25, 2011) It was a surprise! I didn’t know and it seems like I was the only one who didn’t know I would be receiving an award. People in my entourage knew. the poor representation of Rwanda said Clementine Dusabejambo (The New Times, Saturday, March 11, 2017) When I got on stage I didn’t say anything. I was totally speechless. It was the second time a Thomas Sankara Prize was being given out at FESPACO. Everyone was waiting for it because Thomas Sankara was a great hero in Burkina Faso. Dusabejambo said that, the Thomas Sankara prize (The New Times, Saturday, March 11, 2017) I wanted to pay tribute to the women of my country. To those mothers who found the strength to remain standing with dignity, to forgive, to move forward – however imperfectly, however painfully. ‘Forgiveness has to be lived out’: Rwanda's Cannes winner Dusabejambo. rfi.fr (October 4, 2026) It becomes a question of choice. Is forgiveness a choice? Or, even if you want to forgive, do you then have to prove it? ‘Forgiveness has to be lived out’: Rwanda's Cannes winner Dusabejambo. rfi.fr (October 4, 2026) It was clear: this was a genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi. But my generation does not define itself through ethnicity – we define ourselves as Rwandans. ‘Forgiveness has to be lived out’: Rwanda's Cannes winner Dusabejambo. rfi.fr (October 4, 2026) But forgiveness also had to become something visible and real. ‘Forgiveness has to be lived out’: Rwanda's Cannes winner Dusabejambo. rfi.fr (October 4, 2026) There is always a sense of community that conveys the emotion of what the hills and this landscape have witnessed. ‘Forgiveness has to be lived out’: Rwanda's Cannes winner Dusabejambo. rfi.fr (October 4, 2026) We just need more financing from home so we can work without having to apply for foreign money. ‘Ben’imana’: Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo On Directing Rwanda’s First Cannes Title & How Haile Gerima And Lee Isaac Chung Helped To Launch Her Career. deadline.com (October 4, 2026) I got all the bad feedback one can get, so I was sitting down trying to decide whether I would continue or not? ‘Ben’imana’: Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo On Directing Rwanda’s First Cannes Title & How Haile Gerima And Lee Isaac Chung Helped To Launch Her Career. deadline.com (October 4, 2026) The genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. It was a crime that was made within families, and in the aftermath, they wanted to find the solution within the same broken families. That was my foundation for everything. ‘Ben’imana’: Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo On Directing Rwanda’s First Cannes Title & How Haile Gerima And Lee Isaac Chung Helped To Launch Her Career. deadline.com (October 4, 2026) When you are selected for Cannes, it means there’s something in what you are bringing to the table. And when you win the Camera d’Or, it means you are part of a group of storytellers that everyone will open their hearts and minds and eyes to. Behind The Screens: Interview With Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, Director Of Camera D’or Winning Debut Feature Ben’Imana. irresistiblemagazine.com.au (October 4, 2026) I didn’t want to count time because you can feel pressure. Behind The Screens: Interview With Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, Director Of Camera D’or Winning Debut Feature Ben’Imana. irresistiblemagazine.com.au (October 4, 2026) The name of the film, Ben’Imana means people of God, and that is what it means to be a Rwandan. Behind The Screens: Interview With Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, Director Of Camera D’or Winning Debut Feature Ben’Imana. irresistiblemagazine.com.au (October 4, 2026) There’s a lot of effort being put into building strong tech hubs, and being part of this first generation of production means we are all struggling and working together. We survive in a collectivity, its not about one company dominating the others. Behind The Screens: Interview With Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, Director Of Camera D’or Winning Debut Feature Ben’Imana. irresistiblemagazine.com.au (October 4, 2026) I have a soft heart. I’m so interested in how people always try to exist in the world, being who they have to be, owning that space, and trying to be accepted. Behind The Screens: Interview With Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, Director Of Camera D’or Winning Debut Feature Ben’Imana. irresistiblemagazine.com.au (October 4, 2026) In our societies there are people who find themselves in conflicts they didn’t initiate. I like to find out how people find themselves and how they come out of their problems. That is for me a journey of life. Behind The Screens: Interview With Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, Director Of Camera D’or Winning Debut Feature Ben’Imana. irresistiblemagazine.com.au (October 4, 2026) Healing has to take place – healing of the country, but also individual healing. Behind The Screens: Interview With Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, Director Of Camera D’or Winning Debut Feature Ben’Imana. irresistiblemagazine.com.au (October 4, 2026) My intention in making films is not to destroy, it’s really to build, and to keep the dignity in a places where the dignity is lost. It’s really to find the light. Behind The Screens: Interview With Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, Director Of Camera D’or Winning Debut Feature Ben’Imana. irresistiblemagazine.com.au (October 4, 2026) The film (Ben'imana) is a kind of love letter to future generations to see that there were these crimes and then we had the time for justice, and we did it on our own terms. Behind The Screens: Interview With Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, Director Of Camera D’or Winning Debut Feature Ben’Imana. irresistiblemagazine.com.au (October 4, 2026) Every conflict has an aftermath. Even family conflicts. Most of the time people love each other, but then they hate each other, and then they want to reconnect. So how do we reconnect? How do we move on without losing sight of other human beings? Behind The Screens: Interview With Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, Director Of Camera D’or Winning Debut Feature Ben’Imana. irresistiblemagazine.com.au (October 4, 2026) There’s a reason our first language is called mother tongue. Every human being came to the world through a woman. It’s where we meet. Behind The Screens: Interview With Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, Director Of Camera D’or Winning Debut Feature Ben’Imana. irresistiblemagazine.com.au (October 4, 2026) I would not say that this generation of Rwandans attempts to find its identity through cinema, but rather that the films act as a vehicle for this identity. Marie Clementine Dusabejambo talks about cinema in Rwanda. africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com (October 4, 2026) Cinema is a profession for us; and sometimes, a means for others to relax. Marie Clementine Dusabejambo talks about cinema in Rwanda. africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com (October 4, 2026) My role is to make people aware, especially women, that as any other profession, women can make films. And that it is an incredibly remarkable experience that allows women to transmit their ideas and to better express themselves. Marie Clementine Dusabejambo talks about cinema in Rwanda. africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com (October 4, 2026) At a time when the vast majority of films on the subject had been made by filmmakers from outside the country. Rwanda is finally telling its own story. Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo: The Rwandan Filmmaker Who Moved Cannes to Tears. africa-news-agency.com (October 4, 2026) My main character turned to forgiveness. A forgiveness that has content she must prove in her life, she must live it. She has pronounced it, but she has to live it. Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo: The Rwandan Filmmaker Who Moved Cannes to Tears. africa-news-agency.com (October 4, 2026) I couldn’t see this film being in any other language. I really wanted to capture the weight of words. Defining Moment for Rwanda as Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo’s ‘Ben’Imana’ Wins Caméra d’Or and FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes. sinemafocus.com (October 4, 2026) It is through the expression of happiness, pain, dreams and frustrations that I explore the dualities of life. Creativity is Life" scholarships, RWANDA, Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo. africalia.be (October 4, 2026) This crisis (Coronavirus panemic) has shown us that despite the limits, we can still be creative. Creativity is Life" scholarships, RWANDA, Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo. africalia.be (October 4, 2026) Through image and words, I commit to film the story’s silences to reclaim their voices. Ben’Imana, as seen by Marie Clementine Dusabejambo. festival-cannes.com (October 4, 2026) External links Category:Women engineers from Rwanda Category:1987 births Category:Women born in the 1980s Category:Living people