Every March, Cinematheque Ontario’s Human Rights Watch series delivers a reliably solid survey of politically committed and stridently humanist filmmaking from all over the globe. The latest edition is no exception thanks to such selections as Snow (Feb. 26), a modest but affecting Bosnian drama set in a village of war widows, and Under Rich Earth (March 1), Malcolm Rogge’s excellent NFB doc about a fierce battle between Ecuadorian farmers and representatives of a Canadian mining company.

Especially welcome is the return of Munyurangabo, one of the decade’s most moving feature debuts. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, a Korean-American who developed the movie while teaching filmmaking at a Christian relief base in Kigali, it’s the spare, simply told story of two Rwandan street kids — one Hutu, the other Tutsi — who take to the road on a quest for vengeance. The emphasis is clearly on the importance of forgiveness, yet the legacy of the 1994 genocide manifests in many complex ways. Neither Chung nor his actors have any interest in easy uplift, though the vivid and vibrant 16mm cinematography provides images of Rwanda that may surprise viewers who only associate the country with its recent horrors.