Synopsis

In September of 2002, three skinheads were wandering through a park in Rheims, France, intent on attacking someone of Arab descent, when they instead targeted a gay man. François Chenu, twenty-nine years old, defended himself with fierce determination, but was overpowered, beaten unconscious, and thrown into a river, where he drowned. The acclaimed French vérité film *Beyond Hatred* chronicles the aftermath of this crime; primarily, it tells the story of the Chenu family’s courageous and deeply