After the screening of AS WE FORGIVE, I heard many comments and reactions about and on the movie.
Some people sayed that it was propaganda, other a no sense or just a movie.
But I heard also some people appreciating the message in the movie, some also heard the massage in the movie but their hearts were close and doubtful, on accepting the message in the movie.

Every comments that I heard showed me how radical we still need to change .
Sometimes ago while I was passing in the road, I heard two young ladies discussing about their school mates, but describing theme by racial and ethnical bases in their discussion.
That remembered me a story of old lady in the south of Rwanda, one morning the neighbor asked the old lady how she was doing the old lady responded “how do you want me to feel”, “when my family members are in prison because they have killed Tutsi” she says “since when killing a Tutsi is a crime” she continued.

When you think about new generation that are growing up with racial and ethnical discrimination and genocide ideology ,and the old generation that are not accepting the wrong of the past .
One rely remark how far we still to go.
Forgiveness is a step to reconciliation.
When the government of Rwanda decided to release the genocide perpetrators some genocide survivors startad to say no to that decission

The betray, the fear, the pain, and maybe the hatred was the feeling of the genocide victims.
In some regions of Rwanda where fear, pain, hatred have been overcamed by the true power of forgiveness.
Victims and the killers live now together, share the some home, village, hospital and their kids go to the same school together.
This is the success of justice based on truth and driven by the real power of forgiveness.
Why do not bekive in the power or forgiveness if that is possible. ?

Some stories of genocide survivors who have been killed by the released genocide perpetrators.
Is one of the negative effects of that decision that showed me how much the power of forgiveness can’t be carried by someone who does not deserve it.
When you forgive someone without any condition it is like putting fire blazes on his or her head , that also makes him or her uncomfortable and ashamed and hard to carry.

I truly believe that forgiveness is a step of reconciliation but remember that forgiveness is the most powerful weapon and the unpopular weapon.

Now more than ever we need to put our differences as Rwandese or and the only key is to forgive.and this apply also to evry person how lives in this world
Peace

hey,
congratulations,
AS WE FORGIVE
AM SINGLE living in kigali,i would like to help you as you share this movie to eastern africa and everywhere,,,,,i have alot to share as i was in kigali during what happened here;
thanks

I was just in the Amahoro Stadium a few weeks ago sitting in the exact same place as the guy with the green sleeves is sitting. Rwanda is such a beautiful country! Thank you for making this film!

Honored to have watched AWF in Amahoro with you and so many Rwandans in July. I even stayed in my seat after learning it would be screened in Kinyarwanda. Pleased to see that the film is getting attention. Now that I’m back in the U.S. I’m just looking for a venue where I can watch it in English so that I can do more than make assumptions about what was being said!