SCARS OF MY DAYS
Awards:
Amakula Commendation (2006), First time Filmmaker (Amakula International Film Festival)
Directed by Gilbert Ndahayo
HDV, 32 min.(2006) Fiction
Available on DVD
Kinyarwanda with English/French subtitles
Film festivals:
Tribeca International film festival (USA, 2007)
Amakula International film festival (Uganda, 2006)
Zanzibar International film festival (Zanzibar, 2006)
Rwanda Film Festival (Rwanda, 2006)
Synopsis:
Two young friends feel helpless and tired of wasting their lives just playing soccer.
They live in a poverty-stricken environment, the country, in the outskirts of Rwanda.
The ambitious and adventurous Samy (Omar M. Sibomana) dreams about the life in Kigali City.
He convinces a reluctant Simuchezo (Richmond Runanira) to leave his sister and join him in his quest for a better life in the capital city.
For the first few days, life begins with enchantment of Kigali’s beauty, they end in disillusionment though.
Their first host on Kigali streets is Mayibobo (Gilbert Ndahayo) and his gang of street children, hardened by extremely harsh conditions serve as Samy's and Simuchezo's guides to an unforgiving and alien city. Samy slowly reflects upon the dream that brought him to the city and decides to go his own way that is until the day he meets Sabrina (Mukakamari), a wealthy widow who proposes he become her personal driver…
Director’ statement:
In this film, I wanted to portray my impression of a capital city. I was seven years old when my family moved to Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda.
Of course, life still goes on, even after a genocide, time flows immutably. Kigali has emerged from the ashes of genocide to become one of the most attractive and affluent cities on the African continent.
Mirrored in this film are the trials and tribulations experienced by decent migrant people the world over. It is difficult times that bring difficult choices.
Choices that are marred and blurred, choices born of the struggle for lifeand livelihood against idleness, against hunger, against death,and the inheritant dehumanizing of urbanization and greater still globalization.
If you haven’t seen “Scars Of My Days”, you will never know what the heart of Kigali has!
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