From art, culture, debates and musical performances to movie nights, Ishyo Arts Centre is undeniably Rwanda’s cultural hub. If the excitement in the room was anything to go by on Tuesday evening during the screening of I’m Winter ein Jahr, instead of In July that was supposed to be screened, then the movie culture is gradually growing. With a fully packed parking lot, movie lovers continued to flock the venue in large numbers and they seemed not bothered with the change of the movie, as they went ahead to enjoy I’m Winter ein Jahr. Lyn Mutesi, a movie fan said shortly after watching the movie, “It was such a great evening and I can’t wait for the next movie on Tuesday.” Synopsis Two very different people find out they have more in common than they imagined in this emotional drama from Germany. Elaine Richter (Corinna Harfouch) is a middle-aged woman who approaches artist Max Hollander (Josef Bierbichler) with an unusual commission - she’d like a dual portrait of her two children. But while 22-year-old Lili (Karoline Herfurth) will be able to model for him, her son Alexander (Cyril Sjostrom) died a year ago at the age of 19 and the artist will have to work from photos and videos. Max agrees to the assignment, but he discovers that Lili isn’t very enthusiastic about posing for him at first, especially after she informs him that Alexander’s death was a suicide. With time Lili and Max begin to bond and come to understand one another’s emotional calamities. Movie lovers should be ready for more exciting movie nights because every Tuesday, Goethe Institut wows movie lovers with great movies. Next Tuesday, the theatre will be screening The Road Block -- a Rwandan movie by Eric Kabera. The Road Block is one of the few movies with the real footage of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
