One Blood

One Blood is twenty-six minutes about a morning in 1997, when attackers stormed the Buta minor seminary in Burundi, ordered the boys to split into Hutu and Tutsi, and they refused – forty of them were killed for standing together.

The film doesn't dramatise any of it; it lets a survivor, Fr. Nicolas, tell it plainly, then walks into the present, where a new generation studies, goes hungry, shares a single doughnut between them, and says the old ethnic labels mean nothing to them now. That refusal to divide is the spine of the whole thing. It ends on those same young men lining up to give blood for strangers in a country that never has enough, and the title lands as plain fact. The camera never once raises its voice.

Directed & Edited by – Marek Skrzecz

Director of Photography – Piotr Wolski

Produced by – Jonas Soto

Executive Producer – Mark von Riedemann

Sound Design & Production Mix – Bartek Sumiła

Colorist – Poul Waligora

Post-Production Assistant – Doman Domański

Production Assistants – Joanna Groszkowska, Igor Wrzesiński