[1] It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on 24 May[2] and won the Grand Prize at the 2007 AFI Fest.

"[4] After stealing a machete from a market in Kigali, Munyurangabo and his friend Sangwa leave the city to return to their villages.

Munyurangabo seeks justice for his parents, who were killed in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, while Sangwa wants to return to the home he had left years ago.

[5] According to The New York Times, prior to the making of the film, director Lee Isaac Chung's wife Valerie, an art therapist, had traveled to Rwanda as a volunteer to work with those affected by the 1994 genocide.

At her urging, Chung accompanied her to Rwanda and volunteered to teach a filmmaking class at a relief base in Kigali in the summer of 2006.