''Earth Made of Glass'' is a 2010 American
documentary film, directed by
Deborah Scranton, about the
1994 Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...
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[ Filming occurred in Rwanda and France. It premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, in the World Documentary Competition, on April 26, 2010.][
''Earth Made of Glass'' aired on ]HBO
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TV in April 2011, and it was nominated as Best Documentary by the Producers Guild of America.[ The film won a ]Peabody Award
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in 2012.[
]
Synopsis
In 2008, Paul Kagame, as President of Rwanda
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, had released the findings from an investigation into the massacre which had occurred there in 1994, when fighting began in the Eastern Congo
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* Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, capital Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire, sometimes referred to a ...
at Rwanda's western border.[ The influence of French military interference in Rwanda plus the Belgian occupation are explained, in relation to the long-time feud between the Hutus and Tutsis, Rwanda's two main ethnic groups.][ Meanwhile, survivor Jean-Pierre Sagahutu,][ whose family had died during the violence, seeks to track down the man who had murdered them. Sagahutu eventually finds the culprit and decides what to do next.][
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Reception
The public reception to the film was generally positive. The Web site Rotten Tomatoes has not rated the film.[
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See also
* Kigali
Kigali () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali has been Rwa ...
, capital city of Rwanda
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References
External links
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2010 Film Awards and Nominations - Page 2
at Metacritic
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2010 films
2010 documentary films
American documentary films
2010s English-language films
Peabody Award-winning broadcasts
Documentary films about the Rwandan genocide
2010s American films