The horrors of Rwanda are giving birth to powerful films, and this intriguing parable from first-time director Fanta Nacro is one of them. An unnamed African state has come to an uneasy ceasefire after horrendous slaughter. The president of the ruling "Nayak" faction is about to arrive for a peace conference with the rebel "Bonandé" militia commander: the tense atmosphere is made explosive when the president's wife (a tremendous performance from Naky Sy Savone) suspects that the man who butchered her infant son is at the party.

There are some stomach-turningly explicit scenes here, and it isn't for the fainthearted, though its sledgehammer power is diminished by a slightly implausible dénouement.