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Our Lady of The Nile
Directed by Atiq Rahimi

Status : Completed

Country : France, Belgium, Rwanda

Originale Title : Notre Dame du Nil

Year : 2019

Language : French with some Kinyarwanda

Domestic Release : BAC Films

Genre : Drama

Runtime : 106 min

Synopsis

Rwanda, 1973.

Our Lady of the Nile is a prestigious Catholic boarding school perched high on a hill, where teenage girls are groomed to be the Rwandan elite. Graduation on the horizon, they share the same dormitory, the same dreams and concerns.

But throughout the country as well as within the school, deep-seated antagonisms rumble. Changing these young girls’ lives – and the entire nation – forever.

DIRECTOR

Atiq Rahimi

CAST & CREW

CAST

Amanda Mugabekazi
Albina Kirenga
Pascal Greggory (Non-Fiction)


SCREENPLAY

Atiq Rahimi (Prix Goncourt 2008 for The Patience Stone)
& Ramata Sy (Sibel)


DOP

Thierry Arbogast (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Lucy, The Patience Stone)


EDITOR

Hervé de Luze (Academy Awards nominee in 2003 for The Pianist, 3 times César Winner)


PRODUCERS

Chapter 2 (Le Brio, Daddy or Mommy) & Les Films du Tambour (Sibel, Dégradé)
Coproduced by France 2 Cinéma, Swoon Productions & Belga Productions

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

Toronto IFF 2019 - Opening Film, Contemporary World Cinema

Berlinale 2020 - Generation - Crystal Bear for Best Feature Film