Leonardo DiCaprio, a famous and legendary actor is coming to Netflix — but not in the way you might expect. The actor is teaming up with the streaming giant to release Virunga, a documentary aimed at protecting the Virunga from oil companies that want to drill the oil from the gorilla park. Directed by Orlando…

Eric Kabera was sitting by the pool at Kigali’s Mille Collines hotel when he decided to make Rwanda’s first feature film. It was 1997, the influx of foreign journalists had slowed and his work as a fixer had dropped off. A Rwandan Tutsi who had spent most of his life in exile in Goma, eastern…

A film starkly portraying genocide in Rwanda, in which 800 000 died a decade ago, received its world premiere in Kigali on the weekend in a stadium where thousands had sought refuge during the slaughter in the central African state. “Sometimes in April” was shown on a giant screen on Saturday evening in the Rwandan…

Seven thousand miles from his home in Rwanda, Eric Kabera, 32, sits at a corner table at the Casablanca in Cambridge, sipping merlot and sifting his four vocabularies – Swahili, French, English, and Kinyarwanda – in search of words to describe a horror that defies description in any language. He is one of 28 children…