Our Lady of the Nile: Atiq Rahimi films the beginnings of the Rwandan genocide

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Photograph extracted from the film of Atiq Rahimi, "Our Lady of the Nile". © 2019 Bac Films Distribution

By: Chantal Lorho Follow

Coming from the country of a thousand mountains (Afghanistan), it is in the country of a thousand hills (Rwanda) that Atik Rahimi went to make his third film, Our Lady of the Nile, based on the novel by Scholastique Mukasonga. A film that will be released tomorrow (February 5, 2020) on French screens.

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A poetic, historical and political film at the same time. The story takes place in 1973, in a Catholic institute for young girls in Kigali. The time of dreams and innocence will fade to give way insidiously to hatred and violence, the beginnings of the genocide that will occur 21 years later ...

VMDN's guests : Atiq Rahimi (director) and Pascal Greggory (actor).

Photograph extracted from the film of Atiq Rahimi "Our Lady of the Nile". © 2019 Bac Films Distribution

Portrait photography of director Atiq Rahimi. © Notre-Dame du Nil / Sophie Davin

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