March 28 saw the launch of the DVD documentary Hunting My Husband’s Killers and the book With What Remains at the Soho Hotel, London.
The film follows the quest of health worker, Lesley Bilinda, as she returns to her former home, Rwanda, ten years after the genocide in which her Tutsi husband was killed. The purpose of the trip is to try and find the killers of her husband and to offer them forgiveness. The book, written by Lesley herself, gives her reflections on the making of the film and her emotions and thoughts as she works through the possibility to forgive and the reasons for doing so.
Immensely moving
After an introduction from Ray Tostevin, the co-director of the film, there was input from Jean Whitnall, the sales and marketing director of Hodder and Stoughton, who published the book, and from Paul Brigham, the marketing director of Tearfund. Jay Knox, director of Purple Flame media who co-directed the film with Ray Tostevin, said: ‘It is a film about facing pain. It is a personal story, not a political film…that gives huge insight into human nature.’
