Rwanda

Joël Karekezi graduated in 2008 with a diploma in film directing from Cinecours. In 2009, he directed his short film The Pardon with the support of Maisha Film Lab, which won the Golden Impala Award at the Amakula Film Festival. He received a development award from the Göteborg International Film Festival Fund for his first feature film Imbabazi: The Pardon which has been screened at different festivals around the world, and won the Nile Grand Prize 2014 at Luxor African Film Festival and Best Director at International Images Film Festival for Women in 2014. In 2012 his script The Mercy of the Jungle won the CFI Award for the Most Promising Audiovisual Project at Durban FilmMart and the Step Development Award at Luxor African Film Festival in 2015. The film was selected at Cannes for La Fabrique de cinema du monde (2013), Locarno Open Doors (2014), Atelier Grand Nord in Quebec (2015), Forum de production de Namur (2015) and Rencontre de Coproduction Francophone in Paris (2015).

Filmography

The Pardon (2009)
Imbabazi, The Pardon (2013)
The Mercy of the Jungle (2018)