The film is based on dozens of interviews with witnesses of the massacres, relatives of victims and dissident soldiers.
It will be the best work to test how sincere the new dispensation is about artistic freedoms and freedoms of expression as contained in the constitution,” the festival director, Raisdon Baya, said.
He was Mugabe’s right-hand man and has been personally implicated in the violence of the 1980s.
Tendi said the focus on Gukurahundi risked obscuring the many other human rights abuses committed by the Mugabe regime over the decades.