BIOGRAPHIE

[EN] Aime Octave Ishimwe (Aime Octave for credits) is a graduating director from the Royal Institute for Theater, Cinema and Sound. His work started in documentary photography at 16, making him a young working photographer. He will later pursue an education in Architecture in China. During the pandemic, he decides to reorient to film, where, among other schools, he is accepted into the RITCS School of Arts in Brussels to pursue an education in film direction. “I grew up in Rwanda, Kigali, the capital. I had never travelled. Cinema at the time was a box Phillips TV set with a closet full of VHS tapes and friends, then later CDs. I was the guy you’d come to for burning a CD. Later, I became the guy who had your favorite film already torrented. We did not have easy access to cinema at the time, not like now. Those films were how I travelled beyond my borders. “ His work is precise and personal, the topics he addresses are socially committed and yet universal, nevertheless serene, subtle, and colorful. He brings urgency and a daring to often-disregarded perspectives on the subjects we address in our daily lives. Both poetic and suspenseful, he hopes to provide a nugget that opens a new frame through which to look at things.

FILMOGRAPHIE

• 2025 Echoes Beneath the Hill AF Réalisation, Scénario, Texte