Our Lady of the Nile (film)

Our Lady of the Nile
FrenchNotre-Dame du Nil
Directed byAtiq Rahimi
Written byAtiq Rahimi
Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Based onOur Lady of the Nile (Notre-Dame du Nil) by Scholastique Mukasonga
Produced byCharlotte Casiraghi
Marie Legrand
Rani Massalha
Dimitri Rassam
StarringAmanda Mugabezaki
Albina Kirenga
Malaika Uwamahoro
CinematographyThierry Arbogast
Edited byHervé de Luze
Production
companies
Les Films du Tambour
Chapter 2
France 2 Cinéma
Swoon Productions
Belga Productions
Release dates
  • 5 September 2019 (2019-09-05) (TIFF)
  • 5 February 2020 (2020-02-05)
Running time
93 minutes
CountriesFrance
Belgium
Rwanda
Monaco
LanguagesFrench, Kinyarwanda

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.