Après Coup Film Screening

The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention welcomes Susan Solomon and Amélie Mutarabayire-Schafer to screen their documentary, Après Coup which explores the persistence of trauma among adults who were victims of genocide in their childhood. The film focuses on the experiences of orphans from two genocides that occurred 50 years apart: the Holocaust in France and the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda.

What do the orphans of these two genocides have to say to each other today? In November 2019, Susan Solomon and Amélie Mutarabayire-Schafer brought together three survivors of the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda and three orphans of the 1942 deportation of Jews from France for a discussion. The dialogue, which took place around a table in a small room at the Shoah Memorial in Paris, is probably the first attempt of its kind.

Susan Solomon
Producer and co-Director

Professor emerita, University of Toronto. Born in Montreal, she attended a school in which half of the children came from families partially destroyed in the Holocaust. A historian of medicine, she works on the trauma of child victims of genocide. She wrote and codirected the documentary “In Search of Roubakine,” which was shown at the Solzhenitsyn Festival (2012).

Amélie Mutarabayire-Schafer
Co-Director

A psychotherapist, she lost the majority of her family in the genocide of the Tutsi. Founder of the association Subiruseke, which helps widows and orphans of genocide, she coordinated a program for Médecins du Monde and Ibuka France to provide psychological support to survivors during the Gacaca trials. Director of “Les Dames de la Colline” (2014) and co-author of “L’Appel de L’Inanga » (2023).