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BEHIND THIS CONVENT
A FILM BY GILBERT NDAHAYOA film director and actor, Gilbert Ndahayo produced early this year a 90 min. film “Behind this convent” which hit the United States with a preview at the prestigious Steven Spielberg’s initiative in California USC Shoah Foundation Institute in March 2008. This screening was immediately followed by another at Bates College in Portland in May. This July 5th, Ndahayo will present his film at this year’s Rwanda Convention event “Rwanda Through the Media Lens.”
On April 6th, 1994, Ndahayo runs to hide in CND, an RPF rebel zone. Upon returning home after a hundred days of genocide, he discovers the bodies of his family and 200 other villagers in a pit in his backyard. His home burnt to the ground. In November 2007, grown-up and composed, Ndahayo meets Emmanuel, the man who beheaded his father and burnt his mother and a young sister.
In a review of this film, Prof. Burt wrote, ”there are no words to express all the reaction to it. The reactions are contained in the emotions of the viewer.”
Today, Ndahayo is esteemed the greatest actor in East Africa in “The Graduation day” as an admirable character Sago in this docu-drama on drug abuse. He also dramatizes his debut directorial short “Scars of my days” by acting as a local gang leader, confronting new comers into Kigali streets. “Scars of my days” was presented at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival to an audience that included former President Bill Clinton and Rwanda President Paul Kagame.
By documenting his family tragedy through the use of testimonies of survivors, the confession of his father’s murderer and the emotional stories of nuns who witnessed the horror; Ndahayo’s first feature documentary “Behind this convent” becomes a landmark film about the Rwanda’s genocide.
Ndahayo is currently residing in New Jersey. He is editing ‘Blessings in Disguise”, his new fiction on wedding disorder in a post-conflict society. He is also scouting funding opportunities for his first Hollywood production “Mother Rwanda”, a story of a woman who gave birth in the genocide.
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