After Years of Walking
Director: Sarah Vanagt UK 2003
Time running: 37 Minutes

Post Screening Discussion with Director

After the genocide of 1994, The Rwandan Government temporarily suspended history from the school curriculum.

The characters in After Years of Walking – children, teachers, genocide killers, students and historians – all find themselves in an uncertain zone between the old history and a new one.

Sarah Vanagt found a historical film made in 1959 by Belgian missionaries. She took this film back to Rwanda in 2002 as an entry point into Rwanda’s search for history.

After Years of Walking is Sarah Vanagt’s graduation film from the National Film and Television School. During her time at the NFTS, she has explored different ways of using archive film in a contemporary context. She has worked on a video project with Rwandan refugee children in London, focusing on the way children deal with their past.


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