OUR LADY OF THE NILE
NOTRE DAME DU NIL (2019)
Directed by: Atiq Rahimi
Cast: Amanda Mugabezaki, Albina Kirenga, Malaika Uwamahoro
Runtime: 93 mins
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG13 (Some Drug References)
The Projector (Golden Mile Tower)
12 NOV – 8PM
20 NOV – 2.30PM
In collaboration with the Singapore Writers Festival
Adapted from the novel “Notre Dame du Nil” by Scholastique Mukasonga
Set in 1973, this coming-of-age portrait follows a group of young Rwandan girls at a Belgian-run Catholic boarding school, taking inspiration from true events that would come to foreshadow the 1994 genocide during the Rwandan Civil War. Many of the girls belong to elite families, while others hold less privilege; further division is sown by ballooning anti-Tutsi rhetoric under existing Hutu rule. The terrain is tense, but in the foreground lies a bewitching yet unassuming story of colonial refusal, flanked by adolescent mischief and curiosity that is surely typical but has, in this case, much higher stakes.
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