The Last Dog in Rwanda

Like many 10-year-old boys, David is fascinated by war. He builds plastic models of all kinds of military vehicles and plays war games with his friends.At the age of 24 he establishes himself as a news photographer, with the world’s theatres of war as his field of occupation.We meet him in Rwanda in May 1994 in the midst of the genocide of Tutsis and moderate Hutus.Together with Mats, a reporter 30 years his senior,he travels through the war-torn country in order to depict the massacres. The Last Dog In Rwanda is a film about the fascination of war and the connection between the little boy’s exciting wargames and the attractiveness of real wars to the adult.How far can one push the limits and extend moral values and ethics to get the perfect picture? The movie is based on star photografer Jens Assur’s own experiences in Rwanda.