Our Lady of the Nile (2019)

Original title

Notre-Dame du Nil

Directed by

Atiq Rahimi

Genre

drama film

Country

Rwanda, France, Belgium

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

U

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1994 at a girls' boarding school in Rwanda, Hutu and Tutsi students navigate their relationships and rivalries while ethnic tensions escalate around them. The film shows how the elite school becomes a microcosm of the country's growing conflict.

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What happens

Our Lady of the Nile is a 2019 French-language film directed and co-written by Atiq Rahimi. An adaptation of the 2012 novel Our Lady of the Nile by Rwandan writer Scholastique Mukasonga, the film is set in Rwanda in 1994, amid the beginning of the tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples that would eventually culminate in the genocide against the Tutsi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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