
1994 or thereabouts. There is a civil war on in Burundi. A genocidal conflict opposing Hutus and Tutsis... We are witnesses to one of those sadly frequent episodes : the attack by the rebels of a minibus transporting ordinary passengers. A Kalashnikov bursts out. The bus stops, the passengers get off. There follows a «selection» separating Hutus and Tutsis. But who is a Hutu, who is a Tutsi? Na Wewe means You Too in Kirundi.... (Full plot summary below)
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1994 or thereabouts. There is a civil war on in Burundi. A genocidal conflict opposing Hutus and Tutsis... We are witnesses to one of those sadly frequent episodes : the attack by the rebels of a minibus transporting ordinary passengers. A Kalashnikov bursts out. The bus stops, the passengers get off. There follows a «selection» separating Hutus and Tutsis. But who is a Hutu, who is a Tutsi? Na Wewe means You Too in Kirundi.
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| User ReviewJoshua LAll very tense and on edge. Well armed Hutus including young boys stop a van of passengers and at gun point question them all to see if any are from the Tutsis tribe, their bitter enemy. A white Belgium witnesses it all. At first I expected it to turn bloody quickly, but each member of the transport comes up with some other tribe or nationality to claim and the leader of this band of Hutus is unexpectedly humane. A film with the message that there is rarely such a thing as racial or ethnic purity anymore and that when the "enemy" becomes a person conflicts can be bridged. |
| User ReviewRyan GChanneling Hotel Rwanda , director Ivan Goldschmidt's short film places us in Africa in the midst of a civil war. The short follows a bus of seemingly unrelated people who are stopped by African rebels. Na Wewe's entirety focuses on the rebels sorting out the Hutus and the Tutsis. With practically no character development, it is ultimately difficult to engage in any pathos whatsoever. Goldschmidt is essentially giving an eye-opener to this ongoing conflict, but the lack of character connection results in ineffective exposure. Its melodramatic ending involving a "U2 song," tops off the lack of emotion in this 2011 Oscar nominee. |