Kivu Ruhorahoza. Little known back home but gradually gaining recognition abroad, he is a skilled Rwandan film maker who is currently making waves in the international film circuit with his latest feature film Things of the Aimless Wanderer.

Since its release late last year ithe film has premiered at Sundance in USA, Sydney, Durban and the Rotterdam film festivals. It will be screened in Rwanda this year.

The film was released in February 2015. Shot in Rwanda, it is about the experience modern explorers and travellers encounter in Africa. Since its release, tThe 32-year-old opted out of Law school for Film in university.

“I didn’t enjoy law and I preferred telling and being impactful in film making, which always pushed me to pursue film, yet in Rwanda film making was new and not recognised as a career,” explains Ruhorahoza.

He started hsi career at the Rwanda Cinema Center in 2004, where he worked first as a production assistant and later as a Film festival director.

At Rwanda Cinema Center, his duties also involved travelling to various festivals, meeting and collecting various films for screening back home.

From 2006 Ruhorahoza embarked on a solo career first by working as a fixer, field producer and film producer for various British Television Documentary film companies. He worked on documentary film making and short films.

Confession, his first short fiction film, which he shot in 2007 earned him world recognition. He later sold it to a Belgian film distributor.

It was screened at over 30 international festivals like the Durban, Asian, Milan, Pan-African Film festivals among others. His 2010 film, Grey Matter, was screened at the Tribecca Film Festival and won Best Male actor and Best emerging Film Director Awards in New York and was sold to Global Film Initiative, a distributor in San Francisco.