DIDY, a documentary film by Gaël Kamilindi, a Rwandan-origin of the ‘comédie

française’ and François-Xavier Destors What remains, thirty years later, of the memory of a mother that a son never had the time to know? Returning to Rwanda in Didy’s footsteps, Gaël sketches a portrait of his mother and of a generation of

Rwandan

women who escaped the worst. Synopsis Gaël Kamilindi was just five years old

when Didy left him.

The memories of her presence have since been lost in the fury of the civil wars and genocides that ravaged Burundi and then Rwanda, precipitating his exile to

Switzerland. Now, with François-Xavier Destors, he ventures to reopen the painful pages

of his family history by meeting eight women who, each in their own way, possess a fragment of Didy. This film is his journey, by way of burial. “I needed to confront

the story of my mother, that of her generation, but also of my country of origin (…) I have the impression that this is a film that concerns us all. Everyone can, at the

end of this film, meet, if not my mother, then at least a generation of Rwandans

and the country, and perhaps somewhere make a little peace” said Gaël Kamilindi to RTS