Back	At the Ottoman Bank Movie Theater: Why Did They Kill Their Neighbors? The Museum's movie theater will be screening the Japanese documentary, Why Did They Kill Their Neighbors? on Thursday, December 8, 2005, at 7:00 p.m. The film focuses on a young man forced by his fellow villagers to murder his own sister's children during the civil war that broke out between Rwanda's Hutu majority and the minority Tutsis. The screening will be followed by a discussion titled, Why is Hell Different? conducted by Uğur Kutay from the Faculty of Art and Design at Yıldız Technical University. Directed by Japanese filmmaker Kumiko Igarashi, in 1998, this documentary draws a chilling picture of how media manipulation drove neighbors to frenzied violence. Pushed to genocide and carnage by radio broadcasts that fuelled fratricidal hatred, Rwanda's Hutu majority massacred some 800,000 minority Tutsis during the civil war in 1994. Among the 130,000 Hutus detained for war crimes, this young man was one of the few to confess his participation in the mass killings and was released three years later. The Museum's film program is prepared in collaboration with the Documentary Filmmakers Association (BSB) and offers films, complemented by discussions, on a different theme every month. Screenings are held at the Museum's movie theater on Thursdays at 7.00 p.m. and are free of charge. Why Did They Kill Their Neighbors? Directed by: Kumiko Igarashi Released in: 1998 / Running time: 49 min. Uğur Kutay graduated from the Department of Film and TV of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dokuz Eylül University. After working as a journalist for a time, he served as manager and program consultant on certain private TV channels. Kutay, whose main areas of interest are visual arts and aesthetics, has published articles on film aesthetics and sociology in various publications including, Negatif, Est&Non, Birikim, and Belgesel Sinema (Documentary Cinema) and has worked on documentaries and short films. He currently writes a weekly cinema column for the newspaper Birgün and teaches courses in film in a number of private institutions while pursuing his academic and cinematographic research in the Faculty of Art and Design at Yıldız Technical University and with the Documentary Filmmakers Association.   Documentary Filmmakers Association (BSB) started out as a civil platform and began its structuring process following the National Conference held in March 1997. Today it continues its activities as an association with professional status, certified by the Ministry of Culture. Starting with Istanbul, Ankara, Eskişehir and Izmir, BSB is in contact with documentary filmmakers throughout Turkey. Convinced that civil culture is crucial in designing better social futures and filling the blanks of collective social memory, the Documentary Filmmakers Association considers these functions complementary to the creative aspect of documentary filmmaking. BSB creates and promotes screening spaces other than television, organizes and participates in film festivals all over Turkey and offers film screenings with discussions, especially in universities.