Clémentine Dusabejambo

Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo was born in Kigali in 1987 Rwanda.[1] She trained as an electrical and telecommunications engineer.[2]

Dusabejambo's short film Lyiza won a Tanit bronze award at the Carthage Film Festival in 2012.[1] Her short film A Place for Myself (2016) told the story of a young Rwandan girl with albinism, who struggles in the face of discrimination and stigma at primary school.[3] Dusabejambo had become interested in the topic after hearing news reports of the 2007-2008 killings of people with albinism in Tanzania.[4] The film premiered at the Goethe Institut in Kigali,[5] and was shown at the 2017 Toronto Black Film Festival.[3] It gained three awards, including the Ousmane Sembène Award, at the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF),[5] and won a Tanit bronze award at the Carthage Film Festival in 2016.[1] She was also nominated for Best Short Film at the 2017 Africa Movie Academy Awards,[6] and won the Thomas Sankara Prize at the 2017 FESPACO.[7][5]

Icyasha (2018) focuses on a 12-year-old boy, who wants to join the neighborhood football team but who is bullied for being effeminate.[8] It was nominated for Best Short Film at ZIFF 2018,[6] in the short films category at Carthage Film Festival,[9] and for Best Short Film at the 2019 Africa Movie Academy Awards.[6] It won the Golden Zébu for Panafrican Short Film at Rencontres du Film Court Madagascar 2019.[2]

• Lyiza, 2011
• Behind the Word, 2013
• A Place for Myself, 2016
• Icyasha / Etiquette, 2018

• Clémentine Dusabejambo at IMDb