MUNYURANGABO
 “Powerful and Arresting! Ambitious and impressive!”
-A.O. Scott, The New York Times
“One of the most impressive low-budget American indies of the decade”
-Michael Tully, Hammer to Nail
“Immediately striking! Supremely confident! An astonishing and thoroughly masterful debut”
- Robert Koehler, Variety
“Remarkable! An authentically beautiful film… A ‘small’ masterpiece”
- Robin Woods, Film Comment
“Piercing, authentic and entrancing... Intense empathy courses throughout Chung’s first feature”
- Nick Schager, Slant
“A beautiful, haunting reminder that by opening its creative arms to the world… American cinema has the power to transform it”
- Tom Hall, Hammer to Nail
“Vivid and vibrant…one of the decade’s most moving feature debuts”
- Jason Anderson, Eye Weekly.com
“Outstanding! Astonishing…intimate”
- Howard Feinstein, Filmmaker Magazine
“Lyrical, vivid and reverential…A finely calibrated feeling for cinema as both advocacy and art.”
- Elbert Ventura, indieWIRE
Rwanda-US/ 2007/ in Kinyarwanda with English subtitles/ 97 min.
After stealing a machete from a market in Kigali, Munyurangabo and his friend, Sangwa, leave the city on a journey tied to their pasts. Munyurangabo wants justice for his parents who were killed in the genocide, and Sangwa wants to visit the home he deserted years ago. Though they plan to visit Sangwa's home for just a few hours, the boys stay for several days. From two separate ethnic groups, their friendship is tested when Sangwa's wary parents disapprove of Munyurangabo, warning that "Hutus and Tutsis are supposed to be enemies."
WINNER Grand Jury Prize – AFI Fest
Best First Film - Mexico City Int’l Contemporary Film Festival
Best Narrative Feature - Sarasota Film Festival
Peace and Cultural Understanding Award - Wine Country Film Festival
NOMINATED - Breakthrough Director – Gotham Awards
Someone to Watch – Independent Spirit Awards
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), Berlin Film Festival, Toronto Int’l Festival, Pusan Int’l Festival, Rotterdam Int’l Festival, Sao Paulo Int’l Festival, London Int’l Festival
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