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KAZUNGU LE M�TIS   Films for Television
Belgium - Rwanda - Canada
1999 / Video / Color / 51 min.

The filmmaker tells a personal story. Born in Rwanda of a clandestine relationship between his Belgian father and Rwandan mother, the director was adopted by a Belgian family at the age of fourteen. This film documents his quest to find his biological parents -- his mother in Rwanda and his father in France. Not only a search for personal identity, the film also brings to trial the colonial spirit that reigned in Africa in the '40s and '50s, a climate that forbade relationships between whites and blacks and attempted to conceal the results of such relationships through coerced adoptions.
Phot.:  Michel Van Laer, Michel Clickermaille.    Ed.:  Johnny Huysser.    Mus.:  Chris Joris, Ben Ngabo, Jean Bosco Safari.    Prod.:  Kathleen de B�thune,Simple Production, 29, rue de la Sablonni�re, 1000 Bruxelles (Belgique), t�l.: (32-2) 217 47 30, fax: (32-2) 217 09 30, e-mail: [email protected] / Georges Kamanayo, Videocam, 36, rue Eug�ne Demolder, 1030 Bruxelles (Belgique), t�l.: (32-2) 245 17 63, fax: (32-2) 216 57 45 / Soci�t� Radio-Canada.   
Georges Kamanayo
Born in Nyabikenke-Gitarama, Rwanda in 1947, Georges Kamanayo graduated from film school in Brussels with a director/cameraman diploma. He worked as a freelance cameraman from 1973 to 1982 and founded his own production company, Videocam, in 1983, for which he produced some 40 documentaries, industrial films and TV newsmagazines.