Our Lady of the Nile

Our Lady of the Nile (2020)

Notre-Dame du Nil

Rwanda, 1973. In the prestigious catholic institute 'Notre-Dame du Nil', perched on a hill, young Rwandan girls study to become the elite of the country. In the process of graduating, they share the same dormitory, the same dreams, the same problems of teenage girls. But in every corner of the country as well as in the school there are deep antagonisms that will forever change the destiny of these young girls and the whole country.

Date of release
2020-02-05
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (27)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Drama
Director
Atiq Rahimi

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Our Lady of the Nile

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.

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