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The Day God Walked Away is a 1st October 2009 Franco-Belgian drama film on the fate of women in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. currently known as genocide against Tutsi, This was confirmed officially by the United Nations Generical assembly designated April 7, as the international Day of reflection on the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda. [1] The drama was directed by Philippe Van Leeuw
Jacqueline is a domestic worker from the Tutsi minority working for a Belgian family in Rwanda. Since the family is being evacuated by the UN, the only place they can hide is in the attic. The entire house is looted while acts of violence against the Tutsi can be heard outside. Jacqueline risks her life while she manages to escape. Arriving in her own house, she finds her two children murdered. She flees to take refuge in the jungle. [2] [3]
On the riverbank she finds a wounded man. She cleans his wounds and gives him water, and they make food together. Jacqueline is seen by a group of men in the woods. She saves herself by getting into a pond, but a young man is waiting on the bank to kill her. Her assailant is killed by the wounded man and he rescues Jacqueline from the pool. The wounded man tries to build a shelter in the jungle but Jacqueline destroys it, and runs to the village where she collapses. [4] [5]
The young mother discover her children lifeless bodies among the corpses, driven from her village hunted like an animal that's where she take refuge in the forest. [6] this movie was shouted in Kigali capital city of Rwanda by the cinematographer Marc Konickx [7]
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