Uganda, April 8 -- Every few years, a film shows up and changes people's perspective on art. These are films such as Avatar, which basically popularised a new technology; The Godfather, which defined an era of film and brought a new spark and toughness to films that Hollywood had been desperately needing; and the 1950s' Rashomon, the first Japanese film to receive significant international attention and acclaim. The film played with multiple perspectives on the single story.

Now called the Rashomon effect, it is a storytelling and writing method in cinema in which an event is given contradictory interpretations or descriptions by the individuals involved, thereby providing different perspectives and points of view of the same incident. ...