Summer Salon - Summer Film and Conversation- As We Forgive

Join us as we view and discuss As We Forgive (2008), a documentary narrated by Mia Farrow about Rosaria and Chantal – two Rwandan women coming face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. The subjects of As We Forgive speak for a nation still wracked by the grief of a genocide that killed one in eight Rwandans in 1994. Overwhelmed by an enormous backlog of court cases, the government has returned over 50,000 thousand genocide perpetrators back to the very communities they helped to destroy. Without the hope of full justice, Rwanda has turned to a new solution: Reconciliation. Films possess immense power for telling stories about human life - be they comic or tragic, serious or absurd, sacred or profane, simple or complex.  Yet films not only depict human life; they also construct (or deconstruct!) what it means to be human.  The purpose of our dialogue it so explore, interpret, and celebrate film in all its aspects - from aesthetic qualities to social, political, and spiritual implications and beyond.