The only dramatic Feature Film telling the story of the Rwandan Genocide 94'filmed in Rwanda starring Rwandans and Directed by Nick Hughes who was in Rwanda during the Genocide.


Review from the 'Orlando Weekly'for the Florida Film Festival.

Nick Hughes' "100 Days," a reference to the horrific genocide in Rwanda of the mid-1990s, is a moving tribute to the more than half million victims. While Hughes occasionally writes clunky narrative dialogue, his eye for setting up impending doom through artfully defined shots is a promising accomplishment for his first feature. Aided by a terrific score by Steve Parr and Sharon Rose, with songs exquisitely rendered by Cecile Kayiregwa, the film devastatingly reveals the horror of the atrocities committed by Hutu militia against the Tutsi tribe and moderate Hutu. But it never lapses into gratuitous graphic violence. The story revolves around two young lovers, Josette and Baptiste, whose courtship and lives are destroyed. Following the shooting down of President Habyarimana's airplane, the government of Rwanda incites local officials to wipe out every Tutsi. Metaphorically representing the complicity of world governments and the Catholic Church, a priest aids in the genocide, while supposedly providing sanctuary in a chapel.
During the roundup, Baptiste flees and joins the Tutsi guerrilla army. Meanwhile, the priest rapes Josette while militia members massacre her family. Special credit must go to the actress who portrays Josette, whose transformation from lighthearted lover to catatonic rape victim is brilliant. One film cannot adequately trace the source of the genocide to its roots in colonial imperialism, where German and Belgian governments first introduced the concept of "race" in order to divide and conquer the indigenous populations. Nonetheless, moments when adults instruct children to distinguish the Tutsi by smell and mythical traits, and a devastating scene where Tutsi children are imprisoned in a building that is then set ablaze, will long linger in your mind. In a more poetic moment, a baby, abandoned beside a waterfall turned crimson with blood, is discovered by a young boy. Is it a prophecy of more genocide to come or a promise of humanity?