Rwandan film maker Gilbert Ndahayo recently released The Rwandan Night, his second feature documentary which will premiere at the ongoing 2014 Zanzibar International Film Festival. The film is about the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

However, the bigger news is that the film was nominated for Ousmane Sembene Award category, one of the top prizes for African filmmakers.

The Rwandan Night is the first film trilogy in the Rwandan trilogy. The film was first shown on June 18th, 2014 at the Hilton Hotel in Zanzibar.

"I don’t think I am angry enough towards what happened,” said Gilbert Ndahayo, who lost 52 close family members including his parents and both grandparents from his mother’s side and more than 300 people from his father’s side during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

His other films Scars Of My Days (2006) and Behind This Convent (2008) premiered in Zanzibar. 

Ndahayo also won the Verona African film Award and Signis Commendation for African Documentary Award at the 2008 Zanzibar International Film Festival.

Ndahayo was born in 1975 in the village of Save in Butare. He currently lives in New York.

He conceived, directed and edited The Rwandan Night which has been translated into Italian, German, French and English.