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<i>A powerful, inspiring film</i>. - Stephen Kinzer, best-selling author and former New York Times reporter<br><br>

<i>Could you forgive a person who murdered your family</i>? This is the question faced by the subjects of AS WE FORGIVE, a moving documentary about Rosaria and Chantale&#8212;two Rwandan women coming face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. The subjects of AS WE FORGIVE speak for a nation still wracked by the grief of a genocide in which members of the country&#8217;s Hutu ethnic majority killed nearly 1 million minority Tutsis during a 100-day rampage. Overwhelmed by an enormous backlog of court cases, the government has returned over 50,000 genocide perpetrators to the very communities they helped to destroy. Without the hope of full justice, Rwanda has turned to a new solution: Reconciliation.<br><br> 

But can it be done? Can survivors truly forgive the killers who destroyed their families? Can the government expect this from its people? And can the church, which failed at moral leadership during the genocide, fit into the process of reconciliation today?<br><br> 

In AS WE FORGIVE, director and producer Laura Waters Hinson and narrator Mia Farrow explore these topics through the lives of four neighbors once caught on opposite sides of a genocidal bloodbath, and their extraordinary journey from death to life through forgiveness.<br><br>

<b>Film Festivals/Awards</b>:<br><br>
GOLD WINNER &#8211; BEST DOCUMENTARY<br>
Student Academy Awards<br><br>

CINEMA FOR PEACE HONORARY AWARD<br>
Cinema for Peace Gala<br><br>

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD<br>
National Geographic All Roads Film Festival<br><br>

CRYSTAL HEART AWARD<br>
Heartland Film Festival<br><br>

OFFICIAL SELECTION:<br>
Kansas International Film Festival<br>
La Femme Film Festival<br>
Rocky Mountain Woman&#8217;s Film Festival<br>
Seattle Human Rights Film Fest<br><br>

Produced in 2008 by Laura Waters Hinson.