Populations in danger

This film casts a new eye on the spiral of hatred that led to the Rwandan genocide. In 1996, two years after the horror, photographer Alexis Cordesse records the first commemorations and visits certain places that have remained intact.
He matches up his photographs based on the massacres with radio archives of the time urging participation. Yesterday's violence resonates with the horrors it produced.

This film, made from photographs and sound recordings, is a human testimony of the siege of Kabul in the years of conflict that followed the Russian withdrawal from Afghanistan. In 1995, Alexis Cordesse travelled to the besieged city. His photos show the people getting organized despite the fighting, and the sounds collected on the spot bring the stills to life. Young people at play, getting married… life goes on.

This film provides rare testimony of the little-known genocide that shook Burundi six months before Rwanda. A little-documented slice of history that triggered the flight of tens of thousands of people. Three years after the massacre, Alexis Cordesse visits the region and the refugee camps are still there. He photographs the aftermath of the chaos and collects these unheard voices.

This film revisits the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina through the history of the town of Foča. Through his photos, Alexis Cordesse is looking for traces of the silent violence that befell this town five years previously.
He aligns these images with interviews collected after the war and indictments made public by the International Criminal Court.