biography

Remy Ryumugabe is an award-winning Rwandan filmmaker/ visual artist. His works, including /ˈꞮƏRI/, Melpomene, Mnemosyne, From Here to There among others, have been selected and screened/ exhibited around the world like the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Uppsala international short film festival, Fribourg international film festival, International Kansk Video Festival, WNDX festival of the moving image, BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Africa in Motion Film Festival, Short Short Story Film Festival, Galerie Imane Farés, Museum Hilversum, Het Nieuwe Instituut among others and his two short films (“From Here to There” one that he wrote and directed and “Muzunga” that he produced) had their world-premieres in the International Competition of the 68th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and From Here to There went on to be screened at more international film festivals like 41st Uppsala international short film festival where It received the Jury Special Mention, 15th Festival Internacional de Cine Africano de Argentina where It won Best Experimental film. His short documentary film “Each of her scars has a story” has been selected for the international short documentary of 26th edition of the Film Festival ÉCRANS NOIRS, 15th Festival Internacional de Cine Africano de Argentina, and 8th Mashariki African Film Festival. His latest short film “A Wingless Bird that Flies” received a Jury’s Special Mention at the 13th Luxor African Film Festival, and the film continues its festival circuit as it has been selected and screened at the 40th Festival International de cinéma Vues d’Afrique, 29th Afrika Filmfestival in Leuven where it won Young African Filmmakers’ Award (YAFMA) in the Documentary category, 24th Festival International du Cinéma Africain Khouribga among others.

He’s the co-founder of KIRURI MFN, an independent production company based in Kigali. He is also the co-initiator and curator of 250 Film Experiment Cine-Club, a cine-club based in Kigali, Rwanda, and He’s also the creative director at KAZI.