Career
Born in Kigali on December 6, 1982, Kivu entered the film career working in 2004 as a production assistant for Eric Kabera, a Rwandan producer, he was then promoted to production manager, where he used to assist a lot of crews coming in Rwanda for news from the British Broadcasting Corporation or Cable News Network, but his passion was film. In 2011 Kivu Ruhorahoza lifted his career after releasing his first feature film Grey matter, a film about trauma and madness in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. The film was produced in Rwanda in unstable financial situations, but it had a great success and went on to play at international prestigious film festivals including Tribeca, Melbourne, Warsaw, Rotterdam, Dubai, Durban, Göteborg and the Festival do Rio.
In 2014, Kivu started the production of his second feature Things of the Aimless Wanderer, a film about the sensitive topic of relations between “locals” and Westerners.
A film about paranoia, mistrust and misunderstandings, the film was entirely shot on a BlackMagic Cinema Camera, with a small budget and an entirely local crew. lieutenant was officially selected to premiere in Sundance Film Festival in the New frontier program
