Didy

Documentary Film
Licensing • Music

DIDY - A FILM BY GAËL KAMILINDI AND FRANÇOIS-XAVIER DESTORS

What remains, thirty years later, of the memory of a mother that a son never had the time to know? Gaël Kamilindi was only five years old when his mother Didy died. The memories of her presence have since been lost in the fury of the civil wars, genocide, and AIDS. These trials that have ravaged Burundi and then Rwanda, precipitating his exile to Switzerland. Today, he ventures to reopen the pages of his family history by meeting the men and women who knew, loved, and guided her, and who, each in their own way, possess a fragment of Didy. Returning to Rwanda in Didy’s footsteps, Gaël sketches a portrait of his mother and of a generation of Rwandan women who have survived the worst.



Licensed Music: Bury Me By The River feat. Gonjasufi by Kutmah
(Written by Dario Rojo Guerra, Sumach Valentine & Justin McNulty)