Movie: Narratives of Modern Genocide

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Gilbert Tuhabonye
Gilbert Tuhabonye

Self

Sichan Siv
Sichan Siv

Self

Josh Kiser
Josh Kiser

Self

Kaleigh McFadden
Kaleigh McFadden

Self

Ron Milam
Ron Milam

Self

Erica Schmidt-Portnoy
Erica Schmidt-Portnoy

Self

Mark Tolok
Mark Tolok

Self

Aliza Wong
Aliza Wong

Self

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    Narratives of Modern Genocide challenges the audience to experience first-person accounts of survivors of genocide. Sichan Siv and Gilbert Tuhabonye share how they escaped the killing fields of Cambodia, and the massacre of school children in Burundi. Mixing haunting animation, and expert context the film confronts our notion that the holocaust was the last genocide.

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    2021-01-12

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