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.
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Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producers : Les Films du Tambour, Chapter 2
- Co-production : France 2 Cinéma
- Foreign production company : Belga Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Indie Sales
- French distribution : BAC Films
Full credits (5)
- Executive Producers : Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha, Dimitri Rassam
- Screenwriters : Atiq Rahimi, Ramata-Toulaye Sy
- Director of Photography : Thierry Arbogast
- Editor : Hervé De Luze
- Author of original work : Scholastique Mukasonga
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French, Kinyarwanda
- Coproducer countries : France (81.53%), Belgium (18.47%)
- Original French-language productions : Yes
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