‘Ben’Imana’ Review: An Impassioned Exploration of the Unruly Legacy of the Rwandan Genocide

The first words spoken in Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo’s “Ben’Imana,” are of forgiveness. But the body does not forget and the speaker’s defiant stare and tight, unyielding stance suggest she is trying, not wholly successfully, to discipline herself into feeling the words as well as just saying them. Dusejambo’s fraught yet forthright first film, which recently won […]

By Jessica Kiang