News Summary

• Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo spoke at Deadline’s Contenders London event.
• Her film Ben'Imana was recently nominated as the country's first ever Oscar submission.
• Set in 2012, 18 years after the genocide against the Tutsi, the film unfolds in a Rwandan village where survivors and perpetrators are grappling with the process of reconciliation.
• It was important, she said, to break through the myths and preconceptions that have sprung up around the genocide.