After watching this short film, I learned many things about women in Rwanda. One of the most memorable pieces of the film for me was the fact that 70% of the population for Rwanda was women after the genocide of 1994. Despite this grisly fact, the film finds a way to document a sort of redemption paired with the shadow of loss hovering over all five of the women featured in the film.
As for Black female subjectivity, I think this film is magnificent. It tells us that this country is mostly populated by women and that this is indeed a story about women dealing with the aftermath of a horribly wounded society. These women have to reconstruct the lives they once knew and through their struggle, we are able to see their courage. Because of how close the film brings us with the "characters", we are able to at least try and understand what they are going through, even though we'll possibly never know for ourselves.
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