Reviews

The Toronto Sun
"There is major buzz about Davina Pardo's documentary Yesterday in Rwanda."

Festival Daily
"Programme Four: I.D. includes Yesterday in Rwanda, a powerful documentary about Claire Wihogora, a young woman who emigrated to Toronto in 1998 after barely escaping the Rwandan genocide. As she tells her story -- including the murder of her father -- director Davina Pardo cuts between straightforward footage of her bearing witness to the tragedy and beautifully-shot, impressionistic images of Toronto and Rwanda. Through the details of her testimony and the unassuming yet strongly poetic images, the two collaborators expertly evoke a sense of her displacement by contrasting the enormous differences between her past and present homes and the permanence of trauma on the psyche."

Eye Weekly
"This is probably the strongest of the Short Cuts Canada programs, featuring films with a distinct political slant... Yesterday in Rwanda, a concise documentary by the very talented Davina Pardo, traces the aftermath of overseas genocide as it lingers in downtown Toronto."

Press Kit
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New York Times essay about filming "Yesterday In Rwanda"
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