Waramutsého! Explained

Waramutsého!
Director:	Bernard Auguste Kouemo Yanghu
Producer:	Courte Échelle Prod
Starring:	Steve Achiepo, Clément Ntahobari, Cécile Malembic, and Claire Pailler
Runtime:	21'
Country:	Cameroon
Language:	French and Kinyarwanda, subtitled in Spanish
Screenplay:	Bernard Auguste Kouemo Yanghu
Cinematography:	Bertrand Artaud
Editing:	Jean-Michel Cazenave, Geoffroy Cernaix
Music:	Philippe Bonnaire

Waramutsého! (Bonjour!, Hello!) is a Cameroon 2008 short film by film director, screenwriter and actor Bernard Auguste Kouemo Yanghu, starring Steve Achiepo and Clément Ntahobari.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Synopsis

Kabéra, a Hutu, and Uwamungu, a Tutsi, are a student and a young worker from Rwanda who live together in the suburbs of Toulouse, France. In 1994, chaos erupts in their home country and Kabéra finds out that members of his family have participated in the massacre of the family of his good friend, Uwamungu, during the Rwandan genocide in 1994.

Awards

• African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival at Milan, Italy, 2009
  • Best African short film
  • ISMU Award for pedagogical merit
• FESPACO 2009
  • Poulain de bronze Award (Short film competition)

External links

• Web site: Waramutseho! . cineafricano.fcat.es . Laboratorio de documentación y difusión del cine africano. Festival de Cine Africano - FCAT . es . 1 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230529011908/https://cineafricano.fcat.es/peliculas/waramutseho/ . 2023-05-29.

Notes and References

1. Representing the Itsembabwoko . Olivier . Barlet . Olivier Barlet . Black Camera . 4 . 1 . Winter 2012 . 234-251 . 10.2979/blackcamera.4.1.234 . 10.2979/blackcamera.4.1.234 . Silence also characterizes Kabera and Uwamungu, two Rwandan childhood friends who live together in Toulouse, France, one of whom works, the other a student, when they discover the genocide in the media in Bernard Auguste Kouemo Yanghu’s Waramutseho! / Hello! (Cameroon 2008).. Page 248.
2. Web site: Waramutseho ! (Bonjour!) Buongiorno! [Italy] ]. africine.org . . fr . 1 August 2024.
3. Web site: Waramutseho! . cineafricano.fcat.es . Laboratorio de documentación y difusión del cine africano. Festival de Cine Africano - FCAT . es . 1 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230529011908/https://cineafricano.fcat.es/peliculas/waramutseho/ . 2023-05-29.
4. Web site: Waramutseho! . en.unifrance.org . Unifrance, Paris, France . 1 August 2024.
5. Web site: Waramutseho! . iffr.com . International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) . 1 August 2024.