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Getty Images Rwandan filmmaker Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo, whose first feature as director, “Ben’imana,” took the Camera d’Or at Cannes this year, has signed with CAA.
The film was named best first feature at the festival’s 2026 edition, where it also won the Fipresci Prize for the Un Certain Regard strand. It was the first film by a Rwandan director to make the Cannes Official Selection.
Rwanda later chose “Ben’imana” as its first-ever entry in the best international feature race at the 99th Academy Awards, and the film has landed a best international feature nomination at the Gotham Film Awards. After Cannes, it went on to play Toronto, the BFI London Film Festival and AFI Fest.
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